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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. Gulliver describes the people as wearing clothes adorned with all of the following except what?
(a) moons
(b) stars
(c) books
(d) musical instruments

2. The last room of the academy is one for what?
(a) art
(b) science
(c) history
(d) mathematics

3. Gulliver hopes to sail where from the island?
(a) America
(b) England
(c) Africa
(d) Japan

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

5. How many years ago does the lord explain that people went to visit the flying island and came down with all sorts of ideas?
(a) thirty
(b) forty
(c) twenty
(d) sixty

Short Answer Questions

1. It is believed that it is hard enough to live forever without having to live how?

2. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?

3. What happens to children with the birthmark?

4. The lord wants Gulliver to see the what that are built?

5. Gulliver talks with other professors about things like taxing a person based on what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Much of Part 3, Chapter 6, talks about Gulliver's encounter with a doctor who is full of ideas. One idea is that in order to cure the woes of the government, the people in the government must be seen to and whenever the people are healed, the politics and government will be healed. Gulliver thinks that that is a valid idea. Do you think that it was? Why or why not? Is such an idea still applicable in today's society?

2. What condition does Gulliver find most of the people in, when he goes down to the lower island, and why is he told that they are that way? What implications does that have?

3. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.

4. How does Laputa stay in the air and do you think that such an island really could exist by using modern technology?

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

6. How does Gulliver finally leave the island in Part 2, Chapter 8?

7. What lessons does Swift try to teach about heroes through Gulliver?

8. In Part 3, Chapter 5, how is Gulliver further introduced to the ideas and beliefs of the Laputians?

9. Describe the ship captain's attitude toward Gulliver, after hearing his incredible story. How does Gulliver react to the captain's attitude?

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

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