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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. One young man is beaten and thrown out because he tries to shoot what at Gulliver's head?
2. What is the last man that does not want Gulliver set free?
3. Who pays Gulliver a visit, a month after Gulliver is freed?
4. The king sends for how many scholars to examine Gulliver?
5. Instead of staying for his sentencing, where does Gulliver decide to go?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What are the ways in which Gulliver defines the relationship between Lilliput and Blefuscu?
3. Describe the misunderstanding that the emperor's men have about Gulliver's watch.
4. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?
5. Why does the secretary tell Gulliver that the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu are at war?
6. Describe the relationship between Gulliver and the farmer's daughter.
7. Explain how the people treat Gulliver, the longer he stays their captive.
8. Swift meant for this part of the book to be a satire on the French government and he uses the size of everything as a farce against the government. Swift is saying that he believes that everything in France is bigger. At the time, Louis the XVI was the king of France and Louis loved to build huge estates and use his wealth for his own desires. King Louis was known to not know or care about the conditions of the people whom he governed. Knowing that, how does Part 2, Chapter 4 mirror activities in France?
9. What is the emperor of the little people like? What type of personality does he seem to have?
10. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe the reasons why the Liliputians and Blefuscians do not get along. How did the two groups become separated? Also, are there disagreements between groups of people over similar topics in the modern era? If you don't believe so, explain why. If you do believe so, list some examples and explain whether you agree or disagree with them.
Essay Topic 3
Gulliver's Travels is full of interesting things to think about and life lessons. Choose three things that you learned from the book that made you stop to think. Explain in detail why you were intrigued by those things and whether or not they ultimately changed your point of view.
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