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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What item of Gulliver's do the Lilliputians think is an oracle?
(a) his pocketknife
(b) his sword
(c) his handkerchief
(d) his watch

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

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

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

9. Who teaches Gulliver the language of the giants?
(a) the farmer's son
(b) the farmer's wife
(c) the farmer
(d) the farmer's daughter

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

11. How long does it take Gulliver to learn the language of the Lilliputians?
(a) about 3 years
(b) They learn his language. He does not learn theirs.
(c) about 3 weeks
(d) about 3 months

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver explains that he loves the kitchen and has done what, since getting to the palace?

2. After the emperor reads the list of things found on Gulliver, what does he ask for?

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

4. The people that can do what are picked for the best jobs?

5. How does Gulliver's sword scare the guards?

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