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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. Gulliver also has to help deliver what?
2. How does Gulliver's sword scare the guards?
3. In the garden, Gulliver was once carried off by what color spaniel?
4. What sort of dance does Gulliver go on to explain that the Lilliputians do?
5. When he awakes, what kind of people surround Gulliver?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What are the circumstances of Gulliver's eventual freedom?
3. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?
4. How does Gulliver say that criminals are treated by the Lilliputians?
5. How does Gulliver describe the country where the giants live?
6. Why does the secretary tell Gulliver that the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu are at war?
7. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?
8. Why doesn't the emperor want Gulliver alive anymore and how does this reveal the emperor's true nature?
9. Describe some of the mishaps that Gulliver describes in part 2, chapter 5.
10. How does Gulliver say that the Lilliputian children are raised?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gulliver and the king of giants have a long discussion about the government of England at the time. Swift makes it clear, through this discussion, that he has much distaste for the way things are run.
Part 1: Do you feel that modern governments have improved at all since Gulliver's times? Why or why not?
Part 2: If you were the ruler of a country, what sort of system of government would you want and why? Would you want a government like the one run by the giants? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how which of the Luggnagg people are immortal is determined, in detail. Also, what rules are the immortals subject to? What happens to them as they get older? Do you think the treatment that they receive is fair? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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