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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. Whose hair does Gulliver use to design seats and purses?
2. The floating island can keep hovering over the lower island, blocking out the sun and what, according to Gulliver?
3. It is believed that it is hard enough to live forever without having to live how?
4. The island cannot go over how many miles high?
5. The last room of the academy is one for what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?
2. Customs of different people are a big part of the book. What custom must Gulliver follow in Part 3, Chapter 9 and how, in general, does Gulliver deal with the customs of people he encounters?
3. How does Laputa stay in the air and do you think that such an island really could exist by using modern technology?
4. What lesson does Swift try to teach about life and death, in Part 3, Chapter 10?
5. In what ways do Gulliver and the king disagree about the concept of war in Part 2, Chapter 7?
6. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?
7. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?
8. What condition does Gulliver find most of the people in, when he goes down to the lower island, and why is he told that they are that way? What implications does that have?
9. What do you think Swift's ideas about modern science are, based on Part 3, Chapter 4?
10. When the king asks Gulliver to tell him about England, what are some of the things that Gulliver tells him?
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
Some of the people of Luggnagg are immortal. Have you ever wished to be immortal? After reading the book, have your thoughts on immortality changed at all? Explain, using examples from the book and real life, what your thoughts on immortality were before reading the book and what they are now.
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