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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gargantua: Introduction, To Readers, Prologue of the Author and Chapters 1-17 (p. 195-261).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Panurge.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Solomon.

2. Who does Pantagruel learn have laid waste to Utopia in Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?
(a) The Turks.
(b) The Dipsodes.
(c) The English.
(d) The Amazons.

3. Who does Panurge talk of having escaped because they wanted to roast him alive in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The English.
(d) The Turks.

4. Pantagruel: Introduction explains that this is the first edition of "Pantagruel" which was dated when?
(a) 1531 or 1532.
(b) 1513 or 1514.
(c) 1522 or 1523.
(d) 1515 or 1516.

5. What does Gargantua's father exclaim upon Gargantua's birth?
(a) "Oh-la-la."
(b) "Que-petit-tu-as."
(c) "Che-mien-au-ju"
(d) "Que-grant-tu-as!"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what king does Pantagruel send the prisoner in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?

3. What is the name of Pantagruel's father?

4. What is the name of the satirical poem in Gargantua: Chapter Two?

5. Who summons the inhabitants of the city to set fire to the Dipsodes' camp in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?

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