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

2. In one academy room, philosophers try to do what?
(a) solve any problems about the nature of humans
(b) decide whether there is life in outer space
(c) discuss the meaning of life
(d) figure out how the world was created

3. The island cannot go over how many miles high?
(a) three
(b) six
(c) four
(d) five

4. When the ship is ready to sail, where is it going?
(a) Uggleangg
(b) Blubbadlubb
(c) Luggnagg
(d) Lubbladbabb

5. Why does Gulliver go back to see?
(a) He is promised double his usual pay.
(b) He misses the sea.
(c) His brother is the captain.
(d) He fights with his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver is held prisoner until he can get orders for passage from the court and he is called before the what?

2. 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?

3. Who argues that a senator should have to vote directly contrary to what he says in his speech, because then that will be what is best for the people.

4. Gulliver hires a guide to help him to the island of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

5. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.

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

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

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

10. Customs of different people are a big part of the book. What custom must Gulliver follow in Part 3, Chapter 9 and how, in general, does Gulliver deal with the customs of people he encounters?

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