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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. Out of concern for losing an eye, Gulliver does what, while swimming away from the enemy?
(a) swims totally under the water
(b) swims holding a shield out in front of his face
(c) puts a helmet on
(d) puts on his glasses

2. Gulliver gets lost while running where?
(a) corn field
(b) meadow
(c) forest
(d) valley

3. Where does the farmer's wife let Gulliver sleep?
(a) outside in the dog house
(b) in her bedroom
(c) in the barn in a haystack
(d) in a box on the table

4. Gulliver learns that the war between the Lilliputians and the Blefuscians has to do with what?
(a) slavery
(b) a long-standing family feud
(c) stolen land
(d) religious beliefs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?

2. How did Gulliver hide things from the Lilliputian guards?

3. Gulliver makes up what sort of game?

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

5. During the journey, Gulliver awakes only once when a couple of the curious accidentally make him do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Gulliver finally decide to leave and go to Blefuscu?

5. 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?

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

7. About a month after Gulliver is freed, the principal secretary pays him a visit. What does the secretary explain to Gulliver about the problems facing the Lilliputians and how does Gulliver's freedom factor in?

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

9. 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?

10. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?

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