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

2. According to the old written laws, Lilliputians cannot hold public office if they do not believe in what?
(a) loyalty
(b) honesty
(c) Divine Providence
(d) compassion towards others

3. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?
(a) boats full of men
(b) dolphins
(c) whales
(d) normal fish

4. When does the emperor have shows put on for Gulliver?
(a) when the performers meet Gulliver and trust him
(b) after Gulliver saves the emperor's life
(c) when Gulliver understands the language better
(d) when Gulliver complains tot he emperor about his boredom

5. How long has Gulliver been on Blefuscu, when he sees something wash up on shore?
(a) seven days
(b) three days
(c) seven weeks
(d) three weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. The king sends for how many scholars to examine Gulliver?

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

3. While Gulliver is sleeping, they bring in a mechanism that was made specifically to do what to him?

4. Which item did Gulliver hide from the Lilliputian guards?

5. Gulliver describes the inner city as a collection of houses at least how many stories high?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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