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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The one law is that the king and his two elder sons may not do what?
(a) marry
(b) hold regular jobs
(c) hold jobs in other public offices
(d) leave the island

2. How long does Gulliver stay in the country?
(a) five years
(b) three years
(c) four years
(d) two years

3. Gulliver says that instead of learning about art and history these people learn about what?
(a) agriculture
(b) flying
(c) sailing
(d) medicine

4. Which of these does Gulliver see?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Sophocles
(c) Plato
(d) Socrates

5. The king threatens Gulliver with the loss of his life if Gulliver tells anyone else about what?
(a) British parliament houses
(b) armies
(c) gunpowder
(d) rifles

6. How does Gulliver say that he would feel if he never had to die?
(a) He would kill himself, eventually.
(b) He would love it.
(c) He would hate it.
(d) He would eventually get bored.

7. Gulliver is held prisoner until he can get orders for passage from the court and he is called before the what?
(a) magistrate
(b) queen
(c) governor
(d) king

8. What does Gulliver find after 5 days?
(a) an island in the sky
(b) a city under water
(c) a talking whale
(d) a mountain in the sky

9. Gulliver wonders how this king had come to think of _________________ if he did not have any enemies.
(a) booby traps aroung the castle
(b) an army
(c) weapons
(d) royal guards

10. When Gulliver tells the king about the treasury of England, what is the king's reaction?
(a) The king is shocked that England can balance their budget perfectly.
(b) The king is confused because England is spending more than they are making.
(c) The king is amazed that England is making mroe than they are spending.
(d) The king suggests that Gulliver go back to England and tell them to run the treasury the way the giants run theirs.

11. Gulliver lodges where, rather than with the governor?
(a) in the servants' quarters
(b) the capital city
(c) a farmer's barn
(d) a college dormitory

12. When an immortal marries, it is annulled when the younger partner reaches what age?
(a) 60
(b) 30
(c) 20
(d) 40

13. When it is found that Gulliver and the king cannot understand each other, Gulliver is taken where and given food?
(a) the dungeons
(b) the king's rooms
(c) the dining hall
(d) the guest quarters

14. The doctor theorizes that whenever the people are healed, then the politics and government will be what?
(a) corrupt
(b) healed
(c) equal
(d) reversed

15. What is lowered to rescue Gulliver from the ocean?
(a) a rope
(b) a boat
(c) a ladder
(d) a chain

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver is questioned by guards there and he lies and tells them that he is what, so he can get into Japan?

2. What does the eagle do with Gulliver?

3. Gulliver learns that the island is called what?

4. The floating island can keep hovering over the lower island, blocking out the sun and what, according to Gulliver?

5. Why does Gulliver go back to see?

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