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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 happens to children with the birthmark?
(a) they are raised royal
(b) they are killed immediately
(c) they are raised as slaces
(d) they are immortal

2. Gulliver makes it clear that he thinks the king is what?
(a) crazy
(b) naive
(c) brilliant
(d) foolhardy

3. The people exceed Europe in what area?
(a) psychology
(b) history
(c) creativity
(d) astronomy

4. The floating island can keep hovering over the lower island, blocking out the sun and what, according to Gulliver?
(a) moon
(b) rain
(c) stars
(d) snow

5. In the last room, Gulliver observes that the students are doing what to words written on paper?
(a) re-writing them
(b) erasing them
(c) burning them
(d) eating them

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver say that he would feel if he never had to die?

2. Gulliver is sent someone to help him with what?

3. Which of these does Gulliver see?

4. Gulliver is questioned by guards there and he lies and tells them that he is what, so he can get into Japan?

5. In one of the academy rooms, the pupils sit for six hours a day doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lessons can be learned from the people of Laputa?

2. How does the king of the floating island rule the people on the island below?

3. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?

4. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?

5. What are the people of Laputa like?

6. What does Gulliver find after sailing from island to island for five days, in Part 3, Chapter 1 and what happens as a result?

7. In what ways do Gulliver and the king disagree about the concept of war in Part 2, Chapter 7?

8. What happens to Gulliver, once he reaches Luggnagg?

9. What do Gulliver's choices of people to call back from the dead say about his motivations?

10. What do you think Swift's ideas about modern science are, based on Part 3, Chapter 4?

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