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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. Where do many people come to see Gulliver, once the farmer takes him to town?
(a) at the palace
(b) in a park
(c) at an inn
(d) at thef armer's friend's house

2. When he awakes, what kind of people surround Gulliver?
(a) six-inch-tall men
(b) six-foot-tall men
(c) men painted green
(d) men painted blue

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

4. What happens to cause Gulliver to abandon ship during his first voyage after the second time his practice failed?
(a) The ship was attacked by pirates.
(b) There is a mutany on board the ship.
(c) The ship randomly sprung a leak.
(d) The ship hit a rock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver tells of seeing beggars with giant what?

2. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?

3. How long does Gulliver stay with his wife before setting sail again?

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

5. What item of Gulliver's do the Lilliputians think is an oracle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Gulliver say that criminals are treated by the Lilliputians?

4. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?

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

6. What are the ways in which Gulliver defines the relationship between Lilliput and Blefuscu?

7. How does the farmer's attitude seem to change toward Gulliver in Part 2, Chapter 3 and why?

8. What is the king's attitude toward Gulliver in all of Part 2, Chapter 5?

9. Describe the relationship between Gulliver and the farmer's daughter.

10. How does Gulliver describe the country where the giants live?

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