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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What strange item do the men find, a few days after Gulliver's game is played?
(a) Gulliver's pants
(b) Gulliver's shirt
(c) Gulliver's shoe
(d) Gulliver's hat

2. Where does the farmer's wife let Gulliver sleep?
(a) outside in the dog house
(b) in the barn in a haystack
(c) in her bedroom
(d) in a box on the table

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

4. What does Gulliver see washing towards the shore, after he is with the Bleuscians?
(a) a sailor
(b) a boat
(c) a dead fish
(d) a hat

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

6. Why does Gulliver have trouble seeing the inner palace?
(a) The inner palace was too tiny for Gulliver to see.
(b) The inner palace is under heavy guard.
(c) There are two many houses between Gulliver and the inner palace.
(d) The inner palace is under construction.

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

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

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

10. Which of the following punishments do the people settle on for Gulliver?
(a) poke his eyes out and slowly starve him
(b) poke his eyes out and banish him to the woods
(c) kill him immediately by hanging
(d) cut off his nose and slowly starve him

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

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

13. Why does Gulliver say that he finally left the kingdom?
(a) He was homesick.
(b) He wanted to explore other places.
(c) He took a short boat ride and became hopelessly lost.
(d) He learned of a plot against him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver tells the emperor to keep the gunpowder away from what?

2. When does the emperor have shows put on for Gulliver?

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

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

5. What does Gulliver first try to tell the king, using hand gestures?

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