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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. In the last room, Gulliver observes that the students are doing what to words written on paper?
(a) erasing them
(b) eating them
(c) burning them
(d) re-writing them

2. Gulliver is upset to find that in the past couple hundred years, humans have actually degenerated when it came to what?
(a) making good decisions
(b) taking care of themselves
(c) advancing technology
(d) looking out for each other

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

4. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?
(a) Balubnibi
(b) Balnibarbi
(c) Balbarbini
(d) Balbubrindi

5. In order to prove the English smart, what does Gulliver tell the king about?
(a) gunpowder's invention and uses
(b) law practices in England
(c) rifles and their uses
(d) land ownership rights in England

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Gulliver finds that it is not a good life because although they never die, what happens?

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

4. Gulliver wonders how this king had come to think of _________________ if he did not have any enemies.

5. Gulliver also calls up the ancestors of certain houses of nobility where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the people of Laputa like?

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. 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. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.

6. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.

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

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

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

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

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