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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 do the men ensure that Gulliver will not escape, once he is in the temple?
(a) They take Gulliver's shoes away, so he can't walk on the harsh ground.
(b) They leave Gulliver tied up with rope.
(c) They lock Gulliver in the Temple.
(d) They shackle Gulliver.

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

3. Gulliver notes that hundreds of what sort of animal are kept by the royal family?
(a) pigs
(b) cats
(c) horses
(d) dogs

4. During Gulliver's game, Gulliver saves a man and a what?
(a) cat
(b) horse
(c) rabbit
(d) dog

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver prosper after returning to England?

2. Gulliver describes the dwarf shaking what from a tree and hitting Gulliver?

3. According to the old written laws, Lilliputians cannot hold public office if they do not believe in what?

4. Gulliver tells the emperor to keep the gunpowder away from what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Swift meant for this part of the book to be a satire on the French government and he uses the size of everything as a farce against the government. Swift is saying that he believes that everything in France is bigger. At the time, Louis the XVI was the king of France and Louis loved to build huge estates and use his wealth for his own desires. King Louis was known to not know or care about the conditions of the people whom he governed. Knowing that, how does Part 2, Chapter 4 mirror activities in France?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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