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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many knights approach Pantagruel's vessel in Pantagruel: Chapter Sixteen?
(a) 2,600.
(b) 660.
(c) 550.
(d) 1,200.

2. What does Grandgousier give to each pilgrim for their journey in Gargantua: Chapter Forty-three?
(a) Arrows.
(b) A horse.
(c) Ten gold coins.
(d) A sword.

3. Who does Pantagruel assign the castellany of Salmagundi in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Two?
(a) Frere Jean.
(b) Thaumaste.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Panurge.

4. Who does Grandgousier summon in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-seven?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) Panurge.
(c) Frere Jean.
(d) Jean Audeau.

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

6. Who brings an action against the Sorbonnists in court in Gargantua: Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Janotus.
(b) Epistemon.
(c) King Anarch.
(d) Panurge.

7. Who does Panurge talk of having escaped because they wanted to roast him alive in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) The English.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The Italians.

8. Who claims that many monks are lazy in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-eight?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) King Picrochole the Third.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Frere Jean.

9. Who insists in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Five that though lending and borrowing is sometimes necessary, it should be used sparingly?
(a) Epistemon.
(b) Carpalim.
(c) Pantagruel.
(d) Panurge.

10. To what king does Pantagruel send the prisoner in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?
(a) King Fasil.
(b) King Blaine.
(c) King Anarch.
(d) King Bodum.

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

12. What is the name of Gargantua's father?
(a) Ponocrates.
(b) Grandgousier.
(c) Janotus.
(d) Magister Janotus de Bragmardo.

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

14. Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that the humanist type of this book was published in what year?
(a) 1532.
(b) 1533.
(c) 1517.
(d) 1546.

15. In Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two, the people of Dipsodes surrender to Pantagruel, except for whom?
(a) Almyrodes.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Panurge.
(d) Epistemon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does King Picrochole send to patrol in Gargantua: Chapter Forty-one?

2. Who claims "those who are not very bright could never spend so much in so short a time" in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Two?

3. Pantagruel: Introduction explains that this is the first edition of "Pantagruel" which was dated when?

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

5. Gargantua: Introduction informs that this is the first known edition of "Gargantua" and was written early in what year?

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