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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Pantagruel's ship in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?
(a) The Dipsody.
(b) The Gargantua.
(c) The Carthanan.
(d) The Thalamege.

2. The Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that this book was published in what year?
(a) 1564.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1559.
(d) 1555.

3. What does Pantagruel see scrambling up trees as he and his men dine in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-five?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Gremlins.
(c) Chidlings.
(d) Monkeys.

4. Pantagruel denounces both the Gastrolaters and who in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fifty-eight?
(a) The Chicanous.
(b) The Interminers.
(c) The Engastrimyths.
(d) The Eucledians.

5. Where do Pantagruel and his men see the hairy tribe of Procureers and Chicanous?
(a) Procuration.
(b) Paris.
(c) Tapinois.
(d) Amaurots.

6. Who examines cases by rolling dice in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-eight?
(a) Bridoye.
(b) Epistemon.
(c) Panurge.
(d) Thaumaste.

7. Near what island do Pantagruel's ships sail in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Sixty-six?
(a) Island of the Papimanes
(b) Island of Dreams.
(c) Isle of the Ganabin.
(d) Ile Farouche.

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

9. Who does Pantagruel send to learn the reason for the Chidlings animosity in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Forty-one?
(a) Panurge.
(b) Badebec.
(c) Epistemon.
(d) Carpalim.

10. What beast does Pantagruel see near Ile Farouche in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-three?
(a) Cyclops.
(b) Physeter.
(c) Medusa.
(d) Chidlings.

11. Who is eulogized in Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Prologue?
(a) Epistemon.
(b) Princess of Avalon of France.
(c) King Anarch.
(d) Queen Marguerite de Navarre of France.

12. Which island in Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Ten proves to be full of infertile soil?
(a) The Island of Ruach.
(b) The Island of Ironmongery.
(c) La Dive Bouteille.
(d) The Island of Cheating.

13. Pantagruel purchases a series of tapestries depicting the life and deeds of whom in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Two?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Ulysses.

14. In Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Forty-eight, Gargantua wishes who will marry but not without his parents' consent?
(a) Panurge.
(b) Badebec.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Pantagruel.

15. In Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Seven, Panurge tells Aedituus the fable of the ass who renounces the what?
(a) Princess.
(b) King.
(c) Mare.
(d) War-horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Homenaz give Pantagruel and his men in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fifty-four?

2. Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Prologue of the Author advises the reader to do what?

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

4. Gaster tells Pantagruel how he invented the means of gathering and conserving what in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Sixty-one and Sixty-two?

5. Who says in the Fifth Book of Pantagruel, "in this world, there are more bollocks than men"?

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