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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 is once captured by what sort of animal?

2. How long is Gulliver told it will be before the reading of the articles?

3. How did Gulliver hide things from the Lilliputian guards?

4. How does Gulliver prosper after returning to England?

5. What is the name of Gulliver's nurse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?

2. Describe how the little men that Gulliver encounters seem to treat him. Are they afraid of him? Why or why not?

3. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?

4. 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?

5. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?

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

7. What does Gulliver learn from his first impressions, in Part 2, Chapter 1, when he encounters the giants?

8. Explain how the people treat Gulliver, the longer he stays their captive.

9. What are the circumstances of Gulliver's eventual freedom?

10. How does Gulliver finally get back to England?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between Gulliver and the king of the giants. Does the king seem to care about Gulliver as a person, or just as a source of amusement. Use details from the story to back up your opinions.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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