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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters 26-47, Epigram and 3 Appendixes (p. 960-1041).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks why many men avoid monks in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-eight?
(a) Eudemon.
(b) Epistemon.
(c) Carpalim.
(d) King Anarch.

2. What island encountered by Pantagruel is uninhabited but weapons grow from the plants?
(a) The Island of Cheating.
(b) The Island of Ironmongery.
(c) La Dive Bouteille.
(d) The Island of Ruach.

3. For how long is Gargantua's mother pregnant with Gargantua?
(a) Eleven months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Seventy days.
(d) One hundred weeks.

4. What land does Pantagruel subdue in the beginning of Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?
(a) Dipsody.
(b) Arcea-Galeau.
(c) The islands of Tohu and Bohu.
(d) France.

5. What position does Ulrich Gallet hold in Gargantua?
(a) Master of Petitions.
(b) Prime Minister.
(c) Merchant of the year.
(d) Mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Panurge and his compatriots discuss the fact that women desire what in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-four?

2. It is written in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-two that Gargantua spent rainy days attending what?

3. Ringing Island was once inhabited by Siticines but they were transfigured into what?

4. In Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Eleven, Epistemon explains why monks are readily found where?

5. In Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Fifty-nine and Sixty tell of how the Gastrolaters worship Gaster as their what?

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