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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 talks with other professors about things like taxing a person based on what?
(a) looks
(b) location
(c) gender
(d) age

2. What is lowered to rescue Gulliver from the ocean?
(a) a ladder
(b) a chain
(c) a boat
(d) a rope

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

4. What does the eagle do with Gulliver?
(a) drops Gulliver and his box into the sea
(b) drops Gulliver and his box into a volcano
(c) drops Gulliver and his box on top of a mountain
(d) takes Gulliver and his box back to its nest

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to speak to the king, Gulliver has to crawl on his belly and do what to the floor?

2. The king threatens Gulliver with the loss of his life if Gulliver tells anyone else about what?

3. The island cannot go over how many miles high?

4. Gulliver is introduced to the king who is hard at work on a problem that involves what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?

10. 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?

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