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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. The last room of the academy is one for what?

2. The people decided that everything could be done better with the help of what?

3. Gulliver is let down onto the continent of what?

4. Gulliver explains to the king that England has how many houses in its Parliament?

5. Who proposes that health and politics are intimately linked?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?

2. When the king asks Gulliver to tell him about England, what are some of the things that Gulliver tells him?

3. What are the people of Laputa like?

4. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?

5. What lessons does Swift try to teach about heroes through Gulliver?

6. What do you think Swift's ideas about modern science are, based on Part 3, Chapter 4?

7. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.

8. What lessons can be learned from the people of Laputa?

9. In Part 3, Chapter 5, how is Gulliver further introduced to the ideas and beliefs of the Laputians?

10. What does Gulliver find after sailing from island to island for five days, in Part 3, Chapter 1 and what happens as a result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Of all of the places that Gulliver visits in his travels, which one do you feel is most run like a conventional modern society and why? Use examples from the book and real life to support your answer. Also, do you feel like being like a conventional society is a good thing, or do you think that some of the other places that Gulliver traveled to were run better? Explain your answer in detail.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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