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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. What strange item do the men find, a few days after Gulliver's game is played?
(a) Gulliver's shoe
(b) Gulliver's hat
(c) Gulliver's pants
(d) Gulliver's shirt

2. 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 can't eat the food in the land.
(d) He has caught one of the giant's diseases.

3. How did Gulliver hide things from the Lilliputian guards?
(a) in a hole in the ground
(b) under a bed
(c) in a secret pocket
(d) in his mouth

4. One of the provisions of Gulliver's release is that he will not leave without what?
(a) at least five townspeople
(b) permission
(c) the emperor
(d) an honor guard

5. What is the name of the captain of the ship Gulliver is on?
(a) Nicholas James
(b) John Nicholas
(c) Nicholas John
(d) James Nicholas

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gulliver first try to tell the king, using hand gestures?

2. How does Gulliver prosper after returning to England?

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

4. Where do many people come to see Gulliver, once the farmer takes him to town?

5. Gulliver helps the emperor's guards to search what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Gulliver describe the country where the giants live?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. How does Gulliver say that criminals are treated by the Lilliputians?

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