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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 name of Gulliver's nurse?

2. Gulliver makes up what sort of game?

3. Another provision states that Gulliver cannot come within the city limits without how much warning?

4. Gulliver decides to seize the enemy's what?

5. How are the commoners punished for shooting arrows at Gulliver?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gulliver describe the emperor's attitude during Gulliver's capture?

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

3. Explain what the provisions of Gulliver's release say about how the little people view Gulliver and about their attitude.

4. Why doesn't the emperor want Gulliver alive anymore and how does this reveal the emperor's true nature?

5. Describe the conditions on the voyage where Gulliver's ship runs into a string of bad luck.

6. Explain how it is decided whether Gulliver will be killed or not.

7. How does the farmer's attitude seem to change toward Gulliver in Part 2, Chapter 3 and why?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Social status is addressed often in the book.

Part 1: Name at least one part of the book where social status plays a major role.

Part 2: Do you agree that different people should have a different status, simply because of things like religion, race or wealth? Why or why not?

Part 3: Social status is still a major part of modern society. Why do you think that is and what might be a good way for people to become less defined by social status?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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