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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction, Rabelais to Mind of the Queen of Navarre, the King's Privilege, Prologue and Chapters 1-13 (p. 389-461).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who among Pantagruel's men has his neck slit in Pantagruel: Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Carpalim.
(b) Epistemon.
(c) Almyrodes.
(d) Loup Garou.

3. It is written in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-two that Gargantua spent rainy days attending what?
(a) Public lectures.
(b) Church.
(c) Art museums.
(d) The theatre.

4. Who becomes stuck in a tree as he encourages the men to have courage in Gargantua: Chapter Forty?
(a) King Picrochole the Third.
(b) Frere Jean.
(c) Gargantua.
(d) Hastyveal.

5. Who kills many of the enemy when he sees them stealing the grapes that the monastery uses for an entire year of wine in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-five?
(a) Magister Janotus de Bragmardo.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Frere Jean des Entommeures.
(d) Badebec.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pantagruel send Carpalim in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?

2. Who asks why many men avoid monks in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-eight?

3. What does Pantagruel cover his men with from the rain in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two?

4. In Gargantua: Chapter One, the author writes that Gargantua's lineage was uncovered in a meadow near what?

5. Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that the humanist type of this book was published in what year?

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