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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. How does Gulliver prosper after returning to England?
(a) He writes books.
(b) He sells his cattle.
(c) He restarts his medical practice.
(d) He runs a boarding house.

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

3. Gulliver estimated that about how many people lived in the inner city?
(a) 50,000
(b) 700,000
(c) 500,000
(d) 1,000,0000

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

5. Which item did the Lilliputian guards not find on Gulliver?
(a) a comb
(b) a pocketknife
(c) a handkerchief
(d) matches

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver notes that hundreds of what sort of animal are kept by the royal family?

2. When he awakes, what kind of people surround Gulliver?

3. How are the commoners punished for shooting arrows at Gulliver?

4. Gulliver explains that most Lilliputian children are raised by whom?

5. Why does the farmer decide to make Gulliver work hard after Gulliver gets ill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Gulliver is a doctor, but his heart seems to lie with exploring the world around him. What evidence supports that, in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. Why does the secretary tell Gulliver that the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu are at war?

3. How does Gulliver describe the emperor's attitude during Gulliver's capture?

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

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

6. Describe the conditions on the voyage where Gulliver's ship runs into a string of bad luck.

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. What is the emperor of the little people like? What type of personality does he seem to have?

10. What does Gulliver learn from his first impressions, in Part 2, Chapter 1, when he encounters the giants?

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