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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item of Gulliver's do the Lilliputians think is an oracle?
(a) his sword
(b) his pocketknife
(c) his handkerchief
(d) his watch

2. 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

3. How do the Lilliputians write on paper?
(a) from right to left
(b) slanted
(c) upside down
(d) straight

4. Gulliver is once captured by what sort of animal?
(a) monkey
(b) bear
(c) elephant
(d) tiger

5. After the emperor reads the list of things found on Gulliver, what does he ask for?
(a) the telescope
(b) the razor
(c) the sword
(d) the pocketknife

6. Out of concern for losing an eye, Gulliver does what, while swimming away from the enemy?
(a) puts a helmet on
(b) swims holding a shield out in front of his face
(c) swims totally under the water
(d) puts on his glasses

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

8. How does Gulliver prosper after returning to England?
(a) He restarts his medical practice.
(b) He runs a boarding house.
(c) He writes books.
(d) He sells his cattle.

9. When Gulliver gets his hand free from his bonds, what do the men do?
(a) shoot little arrows
(b) tie his hand back up
(c) throw rocks
(d) untie him completely

10. When he awakes, what kind of people surround Gulliver?
(a) men painted green
(b) six-inch-tall men
(c) six-foot-tall men
(d) men painted blue

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

12. Why does the farmer decide to make Gulliver work hard after Gulliver gets ill?
(a) The farmer hopes that someone else will offer to buy Gulliver and be able to cure him.
(b) The farmer wants to make more money before Gulliver dies.
(c) The farmer hopes that working will make Gulliver feel better.
(d) The farmer wants Gulliver to make people in the city sick, so that those in the farm lands can take over.

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

14. What was Gulliver schooled to become?
(a) a carpenter
(b) a sailor
(c) a surgeon
(d) a teacher

15. Gulliver tells of seeing beggars with giant what?
(a) ticks
(b) lice
(c) fleas
(d) scabs

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the emperor of Blefuscu decide to do when he finds out about the articles against Gulliver?

2. Gulliver also has to help deliver what?

3. Gulliver estimated that about how many people lived in the inner city?

4. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?

5. How long does Gulliver stay with his wife before setting sail again?

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