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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pantagruel: Chapters 18-23, Pantagrueline Prognostication for 1533 and Prefaces to Almanacs for 1533 and 1535 (p. 133-194).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pantagruel intend to have a look at with his friend in Pantagruel: Chapter Eleven?
(a) Dipsodes' camp.
(b) Pygmies.
(c) The walls of Paris.
(d) La Follie-Gobelin.

2. How many knights approach Pantagruel's vessel in Pantagruel: Chapter Sixteen?
(a) 2,600.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 660.
(d) 550.

3. How many generations of Pantagruel's genealogy are described in Pantagruel: Chapter One?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Ten.

4. Of whom is it written, "if ever there was such a one in Paris, a felon, a cheat, a tippler, a loafer, a scrounger, but that apart, the nicest young lad in the world"?
(a) Anarch.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Panurge.

5. Pantagruel refuses the offer given to him in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten because he believes such offices are like what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Priesthood.
(c) Vacations.
(d) Too high above him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pantagruel stroll toward to seek recreation from his studies in Pantagruel: Chapter Eleven?

2. How many men in copper spheres are sent into Pantagruel's stomach to dislodge a mountain of ordure in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-three?

3. What does Pantagruel's father compose for Pantagruel's mother after his birth?

4. What does Pantagruel send the prisoner with to the king in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?

5. What does the name Pantagruel mean?

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