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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. When an immortal marries, it is annulled when the younger partner reaches what age?

2. Gulliver also calls up the ancestors of certain houses of nobility where?

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

4. Gulliver describes the people as wearing clothes adorned with all of the following except what?

5. Gulliver also likes the idea of taking political foes and exchanging half of each other's what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. How does the king of the floating island rule the people on the island below?

6. What lesson does Swift try to teach about life and death, in Part 3, Chapter 10?

7. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

8. What are the people of Laputa like?

9. 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?

10. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?

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

Explain, using details from the story, the difference between how Gulliver is treated by the farmer when they first meet and how Gulliver is treated by the farmer towards the end of the time that Gulliver is in the farmer's possession. Also, have you ever been the victim of someone who treated you one way to begin with and completely differently later on? If so, explain. If not, have you ever treated someone else one way at first and differently later on? If so, why?

Essay Topic 3

The Lilliputian government officials are determined in a very unusual way through a rope dance.

Part 1. Explain how the rope dance works.

Part 2. Do you feel that the rope dance is a good way to elect officials? Why or why not?

Part 3. What point do you feel that the author, Jonathan Swift, is trying to make about the way that governments are run, by writing about the rope dance?

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