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

2. When the magnet is parallel to the horizon, the island does what?
(a) raises
(b) lowers
(c) moves left
(d) stands still

3. Whose hair does Gulliver use to design seats and purses?
(a) the king's
(b) the nurse's
(c) the cook's
(d) the queen's

4. When attacked by pirates, Gulliver talks to one of the pirates in what language?
(a) French
(b) Dutch
(c) English
(d) Liliputian

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver finds that the way the island floats is by what?

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

3. The people had tried to do away with the language altogether, but the illiterate and whom were in an uproar?

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. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

9. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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

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