Gulliver's Travels Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Gulliver's Travels Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. The island cannot go over how many miles high?

2. What is lowered to rescue Gulliver from the ocean?

3. In order to speak to the king, Gulliver has to crawl on his belly and do what to the floor?

4. What does Gulliver find after 5 days?

5. The lord wants Gulliver to see the what that are built?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 3, Chapter 5, how is Gulliver further introduced to the ideas and beliefs of the Laputians?

2. How does Gulliver finally leave the island in Part 2, Chapter 8?

3. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.

4. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?

5. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?

6. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

7. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?

8. How does the king of the floating island rule the people on the island below?

9. What lessons can be learned from the people of Laputa?

10. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose any one of the times that Gulliver finds himself lost at sea and describe it in detail. How is he separated from his ship? How does he find land, finally? What sort of place does he find when he gets there, what people does he meet and what happens to him?

Essay Topic 2

Swift uses the Laputans to poke fun at modern science and say that experiments are time consuming and costly and, often, fail completely. Do you think that scientific studies are worth the money and time invested, over all? If so, list examples of modern scientific advances that you think have been beneficial and why. If not, list scientific flops that you think have wasted or are wasting money and why.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how which of the Luggnagg people are immortal is determined, in detail. Also, what rules are the immortals subject to? What happens to them as they get older? Do you think the treatment that they receive is fair? Why or why not?

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