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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who proposes that health and politics are intimately linked?
(a) Gulliver
(b) a doctor
(c) the king
(d) the queen

2. The people had tried to do away with the language altogether, but the illiterate and whom were in an uproar?
(a) the children
(b) the men
(c) the women
(d) the leaders

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

4. Gulliver explains to the king that England has how many houses in its Parliament?
(a) two
(b) one
(c) four
(d) three

5. Gulliver is dismayed to see that even if they were alive again, many of these people would be what?
(a) corrupt
(b) sick
(c) boring
(d) average

6. Gulliver also likes the idea of taking political foes and exchanging half of each other's what?
(a) brains
(b) bodies
(c) ideas
(d) followers

7. Which of the following is a house of the British parliament, according to Gulliver?
(a) House of Peons
(b) House of Equals
(c) House of Peers
(d) House of Friends

8. The island cannot go over how many miles high?
(a) four
(b) six
(c) three
(d) five

9. How soon after returning to England does Gulliver start out on his next voyage?
(a) four months
(b) two weeks
(c) two months
(d) six months

10. How many years ago does the lord explain that people went to visit the flying island and came down with all sorts of ideas?
(a) thirty
(b) forty
(c) twenty
(d) sixty

11. Which of the following is a house of the British parliament, according to Gulliver?
(a) House of Commoncause
(b) House of Commonwealth
(c) House of Commoners
(d) House of Commons

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

13. It is believed that it is hard enough to live forever without having to live how?
(a) young forever
(b) with someone else forever
(c) old forever
(d) alone forever

14. Gulliver is introduced to the king who is hard at work on a problem that involves what?
(a) astronomy
(b) history
(c) psychology
(d) mathematics

15. What does the captain tell Gulliver has happened to the items Gulliver asks for?
(a) They have been destroyed.
(b) They are locked below decks.
(c) They were left on the island.
(d) They fell overboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one academy room, philosophers try to do what?

2. Gulliver also calls up the ancestors of certain houses of nobility where?

3. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?

4. Gulliver sees Alexander the Great and finds out he died of what and had not been poisoned.

5. Whose hair does Gulliver use to design seats and purses?

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