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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives permission to the king to print and sell Rabelais' book as written in Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction?
(a) The King's Power.
(b) The King's Privilege.
(c) The King's Greed.
(d) The Royal Prerogative.

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

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

4. What position is offered to Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) Receiver of Petitions.
(b) President of Court.
(c) Receiver of Petitions and President of Court.
(d) President of Petitions.

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

6. Who summons the inhabitants of the city to set fire to the Dipsodes' camp in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Loup Garou.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Rabelais.
(d) Carpalim.

7. With whose wisdom is Pantagruel's compared in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Moses.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Solomon.

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

9. What English scholar comes to visit Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Thaumaste.
(b) Prince Charles.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Panurge.

10. Who does Panurge dress as a crier of green sauce in order to settle him into a trade in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Solomon.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Epistemon.
(d) Janotus.

11. Who does Pantagruel learn have laid waste to Utopia in Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?
(a) The English.
(b) The Dipsodes.
(c) The Amazons.
(d) The Turks.

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

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

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

15. Pantagruel refuses the offer given to him in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten because he believes such offices are like what?
(a) Priesthood.
(b) Too high above him.
(c) Vacations.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the midwife administer to Gargantua's mother when she goes into labor?

2. What occupation does Seraphin Calobarsy hold?

3. Panurge suggests making the decision of whether or not to marry in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Eleven by doing what?

4. How many generations of Pantagruel's genealogy are described in Pantagruel: Chapter One?

5. In Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two, the people of Dipsodes surrender to Pantagruel, except for whom?

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