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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who teaches Gulliver the language of the giants?
(a) the farmer's son
(b) the farmer's daughter
(c) the farmer
(d) the farmer's wife

2. How many children does the farmer have?
(a) seven
(b) five
(c) one
(d) three

3. What sort of dance does Gulliver go on to explain that the Lilliputians do?
(a) a risque dance
(b) a rain dance
(c) a ribbon dance
(d) a rope dance

4. How does Gulliver's sword scare the guards?
(a) The sword catches the light and blinds them.
(b) Gulliver pretends to use the sword to stab at them.
(c) The sword falls to the ground and almost crushes them.
(d) Gulliver thros the sword across the room and it sticks in the ground next to the king.

5. Another provision states that Gulliver cannot come within the city limits without how much warning?
(a) forty-eight hours
(b) eight hours
(c) twenty-four hours
(d) two hours

6. Which of the following punishments do the people settle on for Gulliver?
(a) poke his eyes out and slowly starve him
(b) kill him immediately by hanging
(c) cut off his nose and slowly starve him
(d) poke his eyes out and banish him to the woods

7. How do the Lilliputians bury their dead?
(a) with arms straight up
(b) with arms folded behind their heads
(c) with legs at a ninety degree angle to bodies
(d) with heads down

8. Who becomes Gulliver's nurse?
(a) the farmer's daughter
(b) the king
(c) the queen
(d) the princess

9. Where do the people decide to take Gulliver?
(a) the capital city
(b) home
(c) out into the ocean
(d) the woods

10. What is the name of the captain of the ship Gulliver is on?
(a) John Nicholas
(b) James Nicholas
(c) Nicholas James
(d) Nicholas John

11. Gulliver learns that the war between the Lilliputians and the Blefuscians has to do with what?
(a) stolen land
(b) religious beliefs
(c) a long-standing family feud
(d) slavery

12. Who buys Gulliver from the farmer?
(a) a doctor
(b) a lawyer
(c) the queen
(d) the king

13. Who does Gulliver accidentally insult at the farmer's house?
(a) the farmer's friend
(b) the farmer's daughter
(c) the farmer
(d) the farmer's wife

14. How long does it take Gulliver to learn the language of the Lilliputians?
(a) about 3 months
(b) about 3 weeks
(c) about 3 years
(d) They learn his language. He does not learn theirs.

15. One young man is beaten and thrown out because he tries to shoot what at Gulliver's head?
(a) an arrow
(b) a nut
(c) a gun
(d) a rock

Short Answer Questions

1. Some ambassadors come from Blefuscu, hoping to do what?

2. Gulliver also has to help deliver what?

3. Why is Gulliver getting ill?

4. How long is Gulliver told it will be before the reading of the articles?

5. While Gulliver is sleeping, they bring in a mechanism that was made specifically to do what to him?

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