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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 make out of the beard stubble of the king?
(a) a hair brush
(b) a comb
(c) a scrub brush
(d) a tooth brush

2. It is believed that it is hard enough to live forever without having to live how?
(a) young forever
(b) alone forever
(c) old forever
(d) with someone else forever

3. How soon after returning to England does Gulliver start out on his next voyage?
(a) four months
(b) two weeks
(c) two months
(d) six months

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver hopes to sail where from the island?

2. How does Gulliver say that he would feel if he never had to die?

3. The floating island can keep hovering over the lower island, blocking out the sun and what, according to Gulliver?

4. Which of these does Gulliver see?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to Gulliver, once he reaches Luggnagg?

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

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