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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How long does Gulliver stay with his wife before setting sail again?
(a) two months
(b) two years
(c) two weeks
(d) two days

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

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

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

9. Which item did the Lilliputian guards find, when they searched Gulliver?
(a) a razor
(b) glasses
(c) a portrait of Gulliver's wife
(d) a telescope

10. Gulliver describes the inner city as a collection of houses at least how many stories high?
(a) 20
(b) 5
(c) 15
(d) 10

11. Gulliver also has to help deliver what?
(a) messages
(b) water
(c) fire wood
(d) food

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

13. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?
(a) normal fish
(b) dolphins
(c) boats full of men
(d) whales

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Lilliputians write on paper?

3. 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?

4. What are the two factions in Lilliput called?

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

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