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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. Gaster tells Pantagruel how he invented the means of gathering and conserving what in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Sixty-one and Sixty-two?
(a) Water.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Meat.
(d) Grain.

2. The Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that this book was written in what year?
(a) 1535.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1538.
(d) 1533.

3. The narrator explains that what should not be hated by humans in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-eight?
(a) Cats.
(b) Chidlings.
(c) Giants.
(d) Elves.

4. Who is referred to by Pantagruel and his men as the first Master of Arts in this world?
(a) High-Priestess Bacbuc.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Quaremeprenant.
(d) Messer Gaster.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What plant does Pantagruel take with him in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Forty-nine?

3. What do Panurge and Pantagruel debate the meaning of in ancient literary traditions in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen?

4. The inhabitants of where drink to the health of Pantagruel in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?

5. With whom does Panurge share a discussion about a monastical cabbala concerning salted beef in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Panurge buy a sheep from in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Six? What incident follows?

2. What do the inhabitants of Ruach ingest? What conversation does Pantagruel have with their king?

3. What do Pantagruel and his men find on the Island of Papefigues?

4. What do the tribe of Procureers and Chicanous do for a living? What story does Panurge relate of them?

5. What takes place in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Sixty-six through the end of the novel?

6. Where is Pantagruel in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One? Where does he depart?

7. What leads Pantagruel and Panurge to the Dive Bouteille?

8. Who does Pantagruel suggest Panurge seek the advice of in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?

9. What hearing does Pantagruel attend in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-eight? What is revealed there?

10. Who does Pantagruel convince Panurge to see in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Nineteen?

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