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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. Where do many people come to see Gulliver, once the farmer takes him to town?

2. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?

3. How do the Lilliputians bury their dead?

4. What happens to cause Gulliver to abandon ship during his first voyage after the second time his practice failed?

5. Gulliver helps the emperor's guards to search what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the king's attitude toward Gulliver in all of Part 2, Chapter 5?

3. Explain what the provisions of Gulliver's release say about how the little people view Gulliver and about their attitude.

4. Describe how the little men that Gulliver encounters seem to treat him. Are they afraid of him? Why or why not?

5. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?

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

7. What is the emperor of the little people like? What type of personality does he seem to have?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gulliver is a doctor by profession, but an explorer at heart. Do you feel that most people take on professions that they enjoy, or do they get stuck in careers that they hate for most of their lives? Why did Gulliver become a doctor when he really wanted to be an explorer? What are some reasons that people in modern times do things that they'd rather not do.

Essay Topic 2

Gulliver's encounter with the pirates is interesting. It brings up questions of ethics.

Part 1: Explain, in detail, Gulliver's encounter with the pirates and his discovery of Laputa.

Part 2: How does modern piracy of things, such as computer software, compare and contrast to the piracy that Gulliver encountered.

Part 3: Is modern software piracy really any different from piracy in Gulliver's times? Do people justify modern piracy? If so, in what ways?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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