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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 principal secretary
(b) the queen
(c) the treasurer
(d) the emperor

2. The main city is how many miles long?
(a) 64
(b) 54
(c) 56
(d) 66

3. The Lilliputians think that fraud is worse than what offense?
(a) arson
(b) adultry
(c) murder
(d) theft

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

5. Gulliver describes the dwarf shaking what from a tree and hitting Gulliver?
(a) bananas
(b) pears
(c) oranges
(d) apples

6. During Gulliver's game, Gulliver saves a man and a what?
(a) rabbit
(b) dog
(c) horse
(d) cat

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

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

9. Gulliver helps the emperor's guards to search what?
(a) the countryside for a missing child
(b) the house of a suspected criminal
(c) the shore line, where Gulliver originally washed up
(d) Gulliver's pockets

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

11. 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 giant
(b) a shark
(c) pirates
(d) a dolphin

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

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

14. How did Gulliver hide things from the Lilliputian guards?
(a) under a bed
(b) in a hole in the ground
(c) in a secret pocket
(d) in his mouth

15. Where do many people come to see Gulliver, once the farmer takes him to town?
(a) at an inn
(b) at the palace
(c) in a park
(d) at thef armer's friend's house

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, the emperor wants to destroy the enemy fleet and, therefore subject the people to be governed by what?

2. Gulliver explains that most Lilliputian children are raised by whom?

3. What does the emperor do prior to Gulliver's sentencing?

4. How old is the farmer's daughter?

5. Instead of staying for his sentencing, where does Gulliver decide to go?

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