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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which item did Gulliver hide from the Lilliputian guards?
(a) a telescope
(b) a comb
(c) a razor
(d) pistols

2. Due to trade and the fact that many of the people send their children to the opposite island to become more worldly, what does Gulliver say happens?
(a) Most people know both languages
(b) Most people spend six months on one island and then six months on the other.
(c) Most people have houses on each island
(d) Most people have relatives on each island

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

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

5. Why is Gulliver getting ill?
(a) He has caught one of the giant's diseases.
(b) He is being overworked by the farmer.
(c) He can't drink the water in the land.
(d) He can't eat the food in the land.

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

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

8. What is the name of Gulliver's nurse?
(a) Clichmadalgum
(b) Glumclitchadum
(c) Glumbuclitchda
(d) Glumadalclitch

9. Gulliver estimated that about how many people lived in the inner city?
(a) 1,000,0000
(b) 50,000
(c) 700,000
(d) 500,000

10. Gulliver gets lost while running where?
(a) valley
(b) meadow
(c) corn field
(d) forest

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

12. What convinces the farmer that Gulliver is a small human?
(a) Gulliver gives the farmer money.
(b) Gulliver speaks English.
(c) Gulliver shows the farmer a map of England
(d) Gulliver gives the farmer his telescope.

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

14. Gulliver tells the emperor that he will never do what?
(a) help to place the people in slavery
(b) help the people bring in crops
(c) help jail the innocent
(d) help the people kill the emperor

15. In the garden, Gulliver was once carried off by what color spaniel?
(a) white
(b) gray
(c) black
(d) brown

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver notes that hundreds of what sort of animal are kept by the royal family?

2. How are the commoners punished for shooting arrows at Gulliver?

3. Why does Gulliver say that he finally left the kingdom?

4. How long has Gulliver been on Blefuscu, when he sees something wash up on shore?

5. What do the Lilliputians do to people who are not honest?

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