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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. How long does the journey take?
2. What do the Lilliputians do to people who are not honest?
3. Gulliver notes that hundreds of what sort of animal are kept by the royal family?
4. Who pays Gulliver a visit, a month after Gulliver is freed?
5. Gulliver describes the dwarf shaking what from a tree and hitting Gulliver?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what happens to Gulliver at the Inn and what the farmer decides to do with him afterward.
2. Explain what the provisions of Gulliver's release say about how the little people view Gulliver and about their attitude.
3. Describe the misunderstanding that the emperor's men have about Gulliver's watch.
4. What does Gulliver learn from his first impressions, in Part 2, Chapter 1, when he encounters the giants?
5. Describe the relationship between Gulliver and the farmer's daughter.
6. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?
7. 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?
8. Describe the conditions on the voyage where Gulliver's ship runs into a string of bad luck.
9. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?
10. How does Gulliver describe the emperor's attitude during Gulliver's capture?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Explain, using details from the story, the difference between how Gulliver is treated by the farmer when they first meet and how Gulliver is treated by the farmer towards the end of the time that Gulliver is in the farmer's possession. Also, have you ever been the victim of someone who treated you one way to begin with and completely differently later on? If so, explain. If not, have you ever treated someone else one way at first and differently later on? If so, why?
Essay Topic 3
Choose any one of the times that Gulliver finds himself lost at sea and describe it in detail. How is he separated from his ship? How does he find land, finally? What sort of place does he find when he gets there, what people does he meet and what happens to him?
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