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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. What is the last man that does not want Gulliver set free?

2. Gulliver also has to help deliver what?

3. Which of the following is not a reason that Gulliver is being brought up on charges by the Lilliputians.

4. How do the Lilliputians bury their dead?

5. Who does Gulliver accidentally insult at the farmer's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?

4. What are the ways in which Gulliver defines the relationship between Lilliput and Blefuscu?

5. What are the circumstances of Gulliver's eventual freedom?

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

7. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?

8. How does Gulliver describe the country where the giants live?

9. Why does Gulliver finally decide to leave and go to Blefuscu?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gulliver is clearly an explorer at heart, even though he is a doctor by profession. Do you feel that it was appropriate for him to keep going on voyages, even though he kept leaving his family and just barely avoiding death when he did? If you were Gulliver, would you have given up traveling? If so, why and when would you have decided to stay home? Use details from the story to support your opinions.

Essay Topic 2

Some of the people of Luggnagg are immortal. Have you ever wished to be immortal? After reading the book, have your thoughts on immortality changed at all? Explain, using examples from the book and real life, what your thoughts on immortality were before reading the book and what they are now.

Essay Topic 3

In writing about the Laputans, Swift takes an interesting stand on science, believing that, while it can be good, it can also consume people, if their theories aren't sound. Using examples from the book, as well as real life, explain, in detail, about whether or not you think science is a good thing or a bad thing and why.

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