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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. Due to trade and the fact that many of the people send their children to the opposite island to become more worldly, what does Gulliver say happens?
(a) Most people spend six months on one island and then six months on the other.
(b) Most people have relatives on each island
(c) Most people have houses on each island
(d) Most people know both languages

2. The main city is how many miles long?
(a) 56
(b) 66
(c) 54
(d) 64

3. Who becomes Gulliver's nurse?
(a) the princess
(b) the farmer's daughter
(c) the queen
(d) the king

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

5. Gulliver must agree, also, to be an ally against the people of what place?
(a) Blefuscu
(b) Lefbascu
(c) Sablecu
(d) Felbascu

Short Answer Questions

1. A couple days after Gulliver's game is played, some men find a strange object where?

2. Gulliver tells of seeing beggars with giant what?

3. When does the emperor have shows put on for Gulliver?

4. How do the Lilliputians bury their dead?

5. What was Gulliver schooled to become?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why doesn't the emperor want Gulliver alive anymore and how does this reveal the emperor's true nature?

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

8. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?

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

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

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