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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. What does the midwife administer to Gargantua's mother when she goes into labor?
(a) Milk.
(b) A poison.
(c) A pain killer.
(d) A constrictive.

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

3. What does Pantagruel cover his men with from the rain in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two?
(a) His tongue.
(b) His ear.
(c) His hair.
(d) His foot.

4. Who summons the inhabitants of the city to set fire to the Dipsodes' camp in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?
(a) King Anarch.
(b) Loup Garou.
(c) Rabelais.
(d) Carpalim.

5. Gargantua: Introduction informs that this is the first known edition of "Gargantua" and was written early in what year?
(a) 1535.
(b) 1512.
(c) 1503.
(d) 1515.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose reputation grows after winning the dispute against the Englishman in Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen?

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

3. 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"?

4. What man with a Germanic tongue does Pantagruel meet in Pantagruel: Chapter Nine?

5. Pantagruel refuses the offer given to him in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten because he believes such offices are like what?

(see the answer key)

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