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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does King Picrochole send to patrol in Gargantua: Chapter Forty-one?

2. What colors are the livery Gargantua's father orders for Gargantua in Gargantua: Chapter Seven?

3. Who addresses Gargantua to explain the importance of the bells in Gargantua: Chapter Eighteen?

4. Who consults Seraphin Calobarsy to set Gargantua on a better path in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-one?

5. Who does Panurge dress as a crier of green sauce in order to settle him into a trade in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to test Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen? What happens?

2. What does Gargantua build in Gargantua: Chapter Fifty? Why?

3. Who does Panurge attempt to seduce in Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen? What is his response?

4. What does King Picrochole do for revenge in Gargantua: Chapter Forty?

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

6. What is the response of the Amaurots to King Anarch's defeat?

7. What does Pantagruel send the prisoner with to the king in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen? What does the king do?

8. What dispute arises in Garganua's homeland in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-three? Who begins an attack?

9. When was Gargantua written? What does To Readers suggest about the text?

10. When does Gargantua leave Paris? Where does he go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Marguerite de Navarre and the system of patrons during Rabelais' time, as well as the significance of the evangelicals and orthodoxy presented in the introductions to the Third Book of Pantagruel. What treatise of Lucian's is cited and why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the setting of "Pantagruel". During what time period does the story take place? How realistic are the locations and the people of the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Define and identify literary and religious allusion in the narrative. What allusion does Rabelais make of Christianity in the reading? How does Pantagruel's story reflect that of Aeneas in "The Aeneid"?

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