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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Gulliver schooled to become?
(a) a surgeon
(b) a sailor
(c) a carpenter
(d) a teacher

3. What is the last man that does not want Gulliver set free?
(a) a Skygol Reaham
(b) a Skybol Golelam
(c) a Skygeah Globeam
(d) a Skyreah Bolgolam

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

5. 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. What does the farmer's daughter think Gulliver is?

2. How long is Gulliver told it will be before the reading of the articles?

3. Gulliver describes his adventures with what kind of creature that is jealous of him?

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

5. Gulliver helps the emperor's guards to search what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the people treat Gulliver, the longer he stays their captive.

2. Was it a good idea for the emperor to have Gulliver taught the language? Why or why not?

3. Describe what happens to Gulliver at the Inn and what the farmer decides to do with him afterward.

4. Describe at least four of the provisions of Gulliver's release.

5. How does Gulliver say that the Lilliputian children are raised?

6. Describe how the little men that Gulliver encounters seem to treat him. Are they afraid of him? Why or why not?

7. In Part 1, Chapter 7, what does the author seem to be using Gulliver's adventures to say about systems of government, especially the government of England?

8. Describe some of the mishaps that Gulliver describes in part 2, chapter 5.

9. Explain how it is decided whether Gulliver will be killed or not.

10. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?

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