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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 does Gulliver find after 5 days?
(a) an island in the sky
(b) a city under water
(c) a talking whale
(d) a mountain in the sky

2. Which of these does Gulliver see?
(a) Galileo
(b) Homer
(c) Socrates
(d) Plato

3. When an immortal marries, it is annulled when the younger partner reaches what age?
(a) 40
(b) 60
(c) 20
(d) 30

4. 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

5. Gulliver is held prisoner until he can get orders for passage from the court and he is called before the what?
(a) king
(b) magistrate
(c) queen
(d) governor

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver says that instead of learning about art and history these people learn about what?

2. When attacked by pirates, Gulliver talks to one of the pirates in what language?

3. Gulliver is introduced to the king who is hard at work on a problem that involves what?

4. What does Gulliver make out of the beard stubble of the king?

5. The people exceed Europe in what area?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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