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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. While Gulliver is sleeping, they bring in a mechanism that was made specifically to do what to him?
2. After his dingy is overturned and Gulliver swims to shore, what does he do?
3. How does Gulliver's sword scare the guards?
4. Gulliver notes that hundreds of what sort of animal are kept by the royal family?
5. What do the Lilliputians do to people who are not honest?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the farmer's attitude seem to change toward Gulliver in Part 2, Chapter 3 and why?
2. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?
3. Describe at least four of the provisions of Gulliver's release.
4. What is the king's attitude toward Gulliver in all of Part 2, Chapter 5?
5. About a month after Gulliver is freed, the principal secretary pays him a visit. What does the secretary explain to Gulliver about the problems facing the Lilliputians and how does Gulliver's freedom factor in?
6. How does Gulliver describe the emperor's attitude during Gulliver's capture?
7. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?
8. Why does Gulliver finally decide to leave and go to Blefuscu?
9. How does Gulliver describe the country where the giants live?
10. Why does the secretary tell Gulliver that the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu are at war?
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
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.
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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