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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays Gulliver a visit, a month after Gulliver is freed?
(a) the queen
(b) the emperor
(c) the treasurer
(d) the principal secretary

2. How are the commoners punished for shooting arrows at Gulliver?
(a) They are banished.
(b) They are pushed within Gulliver's range.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are put in jail.

3. How old does Gulliver think the Emperor of Lilliput is?
(a) around 90
(b) around 70
(c) around 50
(d) around 30

4. What are the two factions in Lilliput called?
(a) the blue heels and the red heels
(b) the low heels and the high heels
(c) the blue hats and the red hats
(d) the low hats and the high hats

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

6. 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) loyalty
(d) Divine Providence

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

8. During the journey, Gulliver awakes only once when a couple of the curious accidentally make him do what?
(a) kick
(b) jump
(c) sneeze
(d) cough

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

10. After Gulliver's schooling was complete and his first voyage was over, where did he marry and settle down?
(a) Rome
(b) London
(c) Amsterdam
(d) Paris

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

12. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?
(a) a volcano
(b) a mountain
(c) a pit
(d) a meadow

13. Gulliver decides to seize the enemy's what?
(a) fleet
(b) treasure
(c) weapons
(d) food

14. Gulliver tells the emperor to keep the gunpowder away from what?
(a) the castle
(b) children
(c) water
(d) fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of concern for losing an eye, Gulliver does what, while swimming away from the enemy?

2. How did Gulliver hide things from the Lilliputian guards?

3. Which item did Gulliver hide from the Lilliputian guards?

4. Where do many people come to see Gulliver, once the farmer takes him to town?

5. What convinces the farmer that Gulliver is a small human?

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