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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters 28-50 (p. 747-810).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sent the ship in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Three to report on Pantagruel's circumstances?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Panurge.
(d) Epistemon.

2. Who tells Panurge of a remedy for cuckoldry in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-three?
(a) A lover.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A physician.

3. Pantagruel advises Panurge to foretell whether he will have a good or bad marriage from what in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The works of Homer.
(c) An encyclopedia.
(d) His dreams.

4. Pantagruel tells the story of whom in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-eight?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Epitheres.
(c) Aguyon.
(d) Solomon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pantagruel's army march to take the entire kingdom by force in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?

2. What does Gargantua attempt to devote himself to in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty?

3. The Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that this book was written in what year?

4. What does Panurge do with the sheep he's bought in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Eight?

5. In Pantagruel: Prologue, the author compared the novel to what literary genre?

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