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

2. Fourth Book of Pantagruel: The Royal Privilege gives the right to reprint the story to whom?
(a) Queen Quintessence.
(b) King Henry of England.
(c) Queen Elizabeth.
(d) King Henry of France.

3. What is abstracted from France by the virtue of the Decretals?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Gold.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Silver.

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?
(a) Meat.
(b) Water.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Grain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Pantagruel's ship in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?

2. Pantagruel purchases a series of tapestries depicting the life and deeds of whom in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Two?

3. Where does Pantagruel sail for in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-nine?

4. The narrator explains that what should not be hated by humans in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-eight?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Pantagruel travel in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Seven through Ten?

2. What does Pantagruel speak of in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Forty-three and Forty-four?

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 do Pantagruel and his men encounter at sea in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen?

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

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

8. What does the physician suggest to Panurge in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-three? What about the philosopher?

9. Where does Pantagruel land in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirty-five? What does he see there?

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

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