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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Introduction, Prologue, To the Most Illustrious Prince, The Royal Privilege, The Prologue of the Author, and Chapters 1-5 (p. 615-680).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose defeat does Carpalim announce to the city in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Epistemon's
(b) Solomon's.
(c) King Anarch's.
(d) Janotus'.

4. Where does Pantagruel's army march to take the entire kingdom by force in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Dipsodia.
(b) Amaurots.
(c) Paris.
(d) The Isle of Ennasin.

5. Fourth Book of Pantagruel: To the Most-Illustrious Prince is addressed to whom?
(a) The Cardinal de Chatillon.
(b) King Henry of France.
(c) Prince William II.
(d) The Thalamege.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Panurge cease to wear in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Seven?

2. Who does Grandgousier summon in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-seven?

3. What does the name Pantagruel mean?

4. Pantagruel: Dixain was written by whom?

5. Who insists in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Five that there would be harmony in a world where all men are both debtors and borrowers?

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