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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. Gulliver is questioned by guards there and he lies and tells them that he is what, so he can get into Japan?
(a) Dutch
(b) French
(c) American
(d) Blefuscian

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

3. The people had tried to do away with the language altogether, but the illiterate and whom were in an uproar?
(a) the leaders
(b) the children
(c) the women
(d) the men

4. Gulliver makes it clear that he thinks the king is what?
(a) foolhardy
(b) brilliant
(c) naive
(d) crazy

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?
(a) forty
(b) thirty
(c) twenty
(d) sixty

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?

3. When Gulliver tells the king about the treasury of England, what is the king's reaction?

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

5. Whose hair does Gulliver use to design seats and purses?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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 happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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

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

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

10. What are the people of Laputa like?

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