View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Gulliver not ask to have brought out on the ship?

2. An eagle picks up Gulliver's box while he is where with the royals?

3. In order to prove the English smart, what does Gulliver tell the king about?

4. Gulliver finds that the way the island floats is by what?

5. Most all of the titles were bought with some sort of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gulliver finally leave the island in Part 2, Chapter 8?

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

3. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?

4. What are the people of Laputa like?

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

6. In what ways do Gulliver and the king disagree about the concept of war in Part 2, Chapter 7?

7. What happens to Gulliver, once he reaches Luggnagg?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Swift uses the Laputans to poke fun at modern science and say that experiments are time consuming and costly and, often, fail completely. Do you think that scientific studies are worth the money and time invested, over all? If so, list examples of modern scientific advances that you think have been beneficial and why. If not, list scientific flops that you think have wasted or are wasting money and why.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the law about choosing people to work in the Liliputian government is written and how the emperor seems to ignore that law. Do modern community, nation and world leaders act the same way about appointing staff, still? Use modern examples to back up your opinion.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,120 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample