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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. Some ambassadors come from Blefuscu, hoping to do what?
(a) get their ships back
(b) get the emperor to agree to come to Blefescu and visit
(c) make a peace treaty
(d) get the emperor's help to cure an illness that is killing many people

2. Why does Gulliver have trouble seeing the inner palace?
(a) The inner palace is under construction.
(b) There are two many houses between Gulliver and the inner palace.
(c) The inner palace is under heavy guard.
(d) The inner palace was too tiny for Gulliver to see.

3. How long does the journey take?
(a) all day and all night
(b) eight days
(c) five days
(d) three days

4. Gulliver describes the dwarf shaking what from a tree and hitting Gulliver?
(a) bananas
(b) pears
(c) apples
(d) oranges

5. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?
(a) a meadow
(b) a mountain
(c) a volcano
(d) a pit

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 does the farmer's daughter think Gulliver is?

3. What is the name of Gulliver's nurse?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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