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

2. Gulliver leaves the governor and returns when?
(a) when the governor is attacked
(b) when the ship is ready to sail
(c) when Gulliver becomes ill and needs help
(d) when the governor calls

3. What is lowered to rescue Gulliver from the ocean?
(a) a rope
(b) a boat
(c) a ladder
(d) a chain

4. Gulliver explains to the king that England has how many houses in its Parliament?
(a) four
(b) three
(c) two
(d) one

5. When it is found that Gulliver and the king cannot understand each other, Gulliver is taken where and given food?
(a) the king's rooms
(b) the guest quarters
(c) the dungeons
(d) the dining hall

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver stays for how many months in the country?

2. Gulliver is put out to see by the Dutchman with how many days of rations?

3. Gulliver learns that the island is called what?

4. Gulliver makes it clear that he thinks the king is what?

5. At the port city, Gulliver is directed to go where until he can find passage to the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.

2. What lesson does Swift try to teach about life and death, in Part 3, Chapter 10?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. In Part 3, Chapter 6, Swift again makes his views of the British government known. What are those views, how does he express them and do they still apply to modern governments?

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

10. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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