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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item did Gulliver hide from the Lilliputian guards?

2. Gulliver describes his adventures with what kind of creature that is jealous of him?

3. What was Gulliver schooled to become?

4. Gulliver describes the inner city as a collection of houses at least how many stories high?

5. Another provision states that Gulliver cannot come within the city limits without how much warning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gulliver say that criminals are treated by the Lilliputians?

2. How does Gulliver say that the Lilliputian children are raised?

3. How does the farmer's attitude seem to change toward Gulliver in Part 2, Chapter 3 and why?

4. Describe what happens to Gulliver at the Inn and what the farmer decides to do with him afterward.

5. Describe some of the mishaps that Gulliver describes in part 2, chapter 5.

6. Describe the misunderstanding that the emperor's men have about Gulliver's watch.

7. In Part 1, Chapter 7, what does the author seem to be using Gulliver's adventures to say about systems of government, especially the government of England?

8. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?

9. Why doesn't the emperor want Gulliver alive anymore and how does this reveal the emperor's true nature?

10. Explain how it is decided whether Gulliver will be killed or not.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Swift uses the Laputans to poke fun at modern science and say that experiments are time consuming and costly and, often, fail completely. Do you think that scientific studies are worth the money and time invested, over all? If so, list examples of modern scientific advances that you think have been beneficial and why. If not, list scientific flops that you think have wasted or are wasting money and why.

Essay Topic 2

Gulliver is given many conditions that he must agree to in order to roam freely in the Liliputian land.

Part 1: Describe in detail all of the conditions set by the Liliputians for Gulliver's release.

Part 2: Explain the motivations behind each of the conditions, in detail. Why do the Liliputians want Gulliver to adhere to each condition?

Essay Topic 3

Gulliver and the king of giants have a long discussion about the government of England at the time. Swift makes it clear, through this discussion, that he has much distaste for the way things are run.

Part 1: Do you feel that modern governments have improved at all since Gulliver's times? Why or why not?

Part 2: If you were the ruler of a country, what sort of system of government would you want and why? Would you want a government like the one run by the giants? Why or why not?

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