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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. The lord wants Gulliver to see the what that are built?
(a) palaces
(b) hospitals
(c) academies
(d) stables
2. The people decided that everything could be done better with the help of what?
(a) science
(b) slaves
(c) animals
(d) friends
3. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?
(a) Balnibarbi
(b) Balubnibi
(c) Balbubrindi
(d) Balbarbini
4. Why does Gulliver go back to see?
(a) His brother is the captain.
(b) He fights with his wife.
(c) He is promised double his usual pay.
(d) He misses the sea.
5. Gulliver finds that it is not a good life because although they never die, what happens?
(a) They are unable to work.
(b) They get bored.
(c) They are unable to see.
(d) They get old.
Short Answer Questions
1. Gulliver describes the people as wearing clothes adorned with all of the following except what?
2. What does Gulliver make out of the beard stubble of the king?
3. How many years ago does the lord explain that people went to visit the flying island and came down with all sorts of ideas?
4. Gulliver also calls up the ancestors of certain houses of nobility where?
5. Gulliver is sent someone to help him with what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the ship captain's attitude toward Gulliver, after hearing his incredible story. How does Gulliver react to the captain's attitude?
2. What do Gulliver's choices of people to call back from the dead say about his motivations?
3. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?
4. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.
5. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?
6. How does the king of the floating island rule the people on the island below?
7. What do you think Swift's ideas about modern science are, based on Part 3, Chapter 4?
8. What are the people of Laputa like?
9. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?
10. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?
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