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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the journey take?
(a) three days
(b) eight days
(c) five days
(d) all day and all night

2. What happens to cause Gulliver to abandon ship during his first voyage after the second time his practice failed?
(a) The ship was attacked by pirates.
(b) The ship hit a rock.
(c) There is a mutany on board the ship.
(d) The ship randomly sprung a leak.

3. One of the provisions of Gulliver's release is that he will not leave without what?
(a) permission
(b) at least five townspeople
(c) the emperor
(d) an honor guard

4. What does the emperor of Blefuscu decide to do when he finds out about the articles against Gulliver?
(a) He sends Gulliver back immediately.
(b) He locks Gulliver up until the LIlliputians come to get him.
(c) He sends Gulliver into hiding.
(d) He says that he will not send Gulliver back.

5. While Gulliver is sleeping, they bring in a mechanism that was made specifically to do what to him?
(a) feed him
(b) carry him
(c) house him
(d) restrain him

6. A couple days after Gulliver's game is played, some men find a strange object where?
(a) on the beach
(b) in a field
(c) in the woods
(d) in Gulliver's shoe

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

8. When the men go onto an island to find water, Gulliver becomes separated from them and then sees them rowing back to the boat with what following them?
(a) a dolphin
(b) a giant
(c) pirates
(d) a shark

9. According to the old written laws, Lilliputians cannot hold public office if they do not believe in what?
(a) honesty
(b) compassion towards others
(c) Divine Providence
(d) loyalty

10. How old is the farmer's daughter?
(a) nine
(b) three
(c) twelve
(d) five

11. How long has Gulliver been on Blefuscu, when he sees something wash up on shore?
(a) three days
(b) seven weeks
(c) three weeks
(d) seven days

12. Some ambassadors come from Blefuscu, hoping to do what?
(a) get their ships back
(b) get the emperor's help to cure an illness that is killing many people
(c) make a peace treaty
(d) get the emperor to agree to come to Blefescu and visit

13. What does Gulliver set sail with?
(a) little girls
(b) little animals
(c) little boys
(d) little plants

14. Gulliver must agree, also, to be an ally against the people of what place?
(a) Felbascu
(b) Sablecu
(c) Blefuscu
(d) Lefbascu

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver describes his adventures with what kind of creature that is jealous of him?

2. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?

3. After his dingy is overturned and Gulliver swims to shore, what does he do?

4. How does Gulliver's sword scare the guards?

5. Another provision states that Gulliver cannot come within the city limits without how much warning?

(see the answer keys)

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