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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pantagruel: Dixain was written by whom?
(a) Francois Rabelais.
(b) Maitre Hughes Salel.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Almyrodes.

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

4. What plagues Africa during Pantagruel's birth?
(a) Tsunamis.
(b) Bubonic plague.
(c) A drought.
(d) Earthquakes.

5. How many men in copper spheres are sent into Pantagruel's stomach to dislodge a mountain of ordure in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the satirical poem in Gargantua: Chapter Two?

2. Who orders his men to march against the shepherds of Utopia in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-four?

3. Where is Pantagruel sent to study in Pantagruel: Chapter 5?

4. Who does Pantagruel learn have laid waste to Utopia in Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?

5. What land does Pantagruel subdue in the beginning of Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Panurge ask Pantagruel's advice about in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Nine? What discussion follows?

2. What is stated about the style and time period of the Third Book of Pantagruel in the Introduction?

3. Who attempts to get back the bells of Notre Dame in Gargantua: Chapter Eighteen? What is Gargantua's response?

4. Why is Braggart killed? Who kills him?

5. What does Pantagruel think of Panurge at the onset of their friendship? How does the narrator describe Panurge in Pantagruel: Chapter Twelve?

6. Describe Pantagruel's birth. Why did his father give him the name Pantagruel?

7. To whom is Pantagruel compared in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten? What office is offered him and why does he refuse it?

8. What did Rabelais write in his "Pantagrueline Prognostication for 1533"? What did he assure the reader?

9. What is sent to Gargantua in Gargantua: Chapter Fifteen? What does he do with the gift?

10. What land does Pantagruel subdue in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One? Who does he give Salmaguni to?

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