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

2. Panurge begs who to sell him a sheep in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Six and Seven?
(a) Epistemon.
(b) Gargantua.
(c) Dindenault.
(d) Carpalim.

3. In Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Forty-four, Pantagruel tells a curious story about perplexity of what?
(a) Human judgments.
(b) Women.
(c) International government.
(d) War.

4. Who tells Panurge that marriage is a matter fraught with risk in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-four?
(a) Epistemon.
(b) Thaumaste.
(c) Carpalim.
(d) Raminagrobis.

5. With whom does Panurge share a discussion about a monastical cabbala concerning salted beef in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?
(a) King Anarch.
(b) Gargantua.
(c) Frere Jean.
(d) Panurge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Panurge of a remedy for cuckoldry in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-three?

2. What did the wife in Panurge's dream put on his head in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen?

3. Who points out the land where Quaremeprenant reigns in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-nine?

4. Pantagruel tells the story of whom in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-eight?

5. Near what island do Pantagruel's ships sail in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Sixty-six?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With whom does Pantagruel almost fight in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Five? What happens?

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

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

5. What does Panurge decipher from his dreams in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen? How does Pantagruel interpret the dream?

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

7. What do Pantagruel and his men find on Ringing Island in Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters One and Two?

8. When was the Fourth Book of Pantagruel written? What introductions precede it?

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

10. Where does Pantagruel set out in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Twenty-eight through Thirty?

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