Gargantua and Pantagruel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

In Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Forty-four, Pantagruel tells a curious story about perplexity of what? (from Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapters 33-52 (pages 536-614))

Human judgments.

War.

International government.

Women.

2.

Who discusses how he finds the Institution of Lent displeasing in Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-seven? (from Fifth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters 26-47, Epigram and 3 Appendixes (p. 960-1041))

Epistemon.

Jean Audeau.

King Picrochole.

Panurge.

3.

Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction states that the humanist type of this book was published in what year? (from Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction, Rabelais to Mind of the Queen of Navarre, the King's Privilege, Prologue and Chapters 1-13 (p. 389-461))

1533.

1517.

1532.

1546.

4.

Who sent the ship in Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Three to report on Pantagruel's circumstances? (from Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Introduction, Prologue, To the Most Illustrious Prince, The Royal Privilege, The Prologue of the Author, and Chapters 1-5 (p. 615-680))

Panurge.

King Anarch.

Gargantua.

Epistemon.

5.

When Pantagruel's ship lands on the Isle of the Macraeons in order to repair their ship, Pantagruel asks whom the reason for the storm? (from Fourth Book of Pantagruel: Chapters 6-27 (p. 680-747))

Epitheres.

Tapinois.

Macrobe.

Xenomanes.

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