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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. Another section of the academy is full of people trying to do what regarding their language?
(a) add words and their meanings to the language
(b) translate their language to French
(c) make their language shorter and less confusing
(d) translate their language to English

2. The floating island can keep hovering over the lower island, blocking out the sun and what, according to Gulliver?
(a) snow
(b) moon
(c) stars
(d) rain

3. How does Gulliver feel about the way the king views Gulliver's country?
(a) He is confused.
(b) He is insulted.
(c) He doesn't care.
(d) He is happy.

4. This island has magicians and sorcerers on it and the main power on the island is that of a family of magicians who use what as servants?
(a) rabbits
(b) living magic hats
(c) puppets
(d) the dead

5. How long is it between the time that Gulliver escapes and the time that he returns to England?
(a) one month
(b) six monhts
(c) three months
(d) nine months

Short Answer Questions

1. What is lowered to rescue Gulliver from the ocean?

2. In order to prove the English smart, what does Gulliver tell the king about?

3. What does the captain tell Gulliver has happened to the items Gulliver asks for?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When the king asks Gulliver to tell him about England, what are some of the things that Gulliver tells him?

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