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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. Which of the following punishments do the people settle on for Gulliver?
(a) poke his eyes out and banish him to the woods
(b) poke his eyes out and slowly starve him
(c) cut off his nose and slowly starve him
(d) kill him immediately by hanging

2. What do the Lilliputians do to people who are not honest?
(a) banish them
(b) put them in jail
(c) make them work the worst jobs
(d) kill them

3. Instead of staying for his sentencing, where does Gulliver decide to go?
(a) deep into the woods
(b) to a hidden cave by the beach
(c) Blefuscu
(d) back home to England

4. How long does Gulliver stay with his wife before setting sail again?
(a) two days
(b) two weeks
(c) two months
(d) two years

5. The king sends for how many scholars to examine Gulliver?
(a) three
(b) nine
(c) five
(d) seven

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gulliver have trouble seeing the inner palace?

2. How are the commoners punished for shooting arrows at Gulliver?

3. Who becomes Gulliver's nurse?

4. How old is the farmer's daughter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the circumstances of Gulliver's eventual freedom?

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

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

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

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

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