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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. When Gulliver gets his hand free from his bonds, what do the men do?
(a) shoot little arrows
(b) untie him completely
(c) tie his hand back up
(d) throw rocks

2. What does the farmer's daughter think Gulliver is?
(a) a robot
(b) a strange mouse
(c) a toy soldier
(d) a doll

3. Gulliver says that what happened during a man's execution?
(a) The man was drowned.
(b) The man was shot.
(c) The man was hung.
(d) The man's head was cut off.

4. When the men go onto an island to find water, Gulliver becomes separated from them and then sees them rowing back to the boat with what following them?
(a) pirates
(b) a shark
(c) a giant
(d) a dolphin

5. What does the emperor of Blefuscu decide to do when he finds out about the articles against Gulliver?
(a) He says that he will not send Gulliver back.
(b) He locks Gulliver up until the LIlliputians come to get him.
(c) He sends Gulliver back immediately.
(d) He sends Gulliver into hiding.

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, the emperor wants to destroy the enemy fleet and, therefore subject the people to be governed by what?

2. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?

3. What is the last man that does not want Gulliver set free?

4. Gulliver estimated that about how many people lived in the inner city?

5. Why does the farmer decide to make Gulliver work hard after Gulliver gets ill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the misunderstanding that the emperor's men have about Gulliver's watch.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?

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