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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. This island has magicians and sorcerers on it and the main power on the island is that of a family of magicians who use what as servants?
2. What state is the continent in overall?
3. What does Gulliver find after 5 days?
4. What item does Gulliver not ask to have brought out on the ship?
5. Gulliver wonders how this king had come to think of _________________ if he did not have any enemies.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gulliver find after sailing from island to island for five days, in Part 3, Chapter 1 and what happens as a result?
2. What are the people of Laputa like?
3. 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?
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. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?
6. What lesson does Swift try to teach about life and death, in Part 3, Chapter 10?
7. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?
8. How does the king of the floating island rule the people on the island below?
9. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?
10. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gulliver and the king of giants have a long discussion about the government of England at the time. Swift makes it clear, through this discussion, that he has much distaste for the way things are run.
Part 1: Do you feel that modern governments have improved at all since Gulliver's times? Why or why not?
Part 2: If you were the ruler of a country, what sort of system of government would you want and why? Would you want a government like the one run by the giants? Why or why not?
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
Describe the reasons why the Liliputians and Blefuscians do not get along. How did the two groups become separated? Also, are there disagreements between groups of people over similar topics in the modern era? If you don't believe so, explain why. If you do believe so, list some examples and explain whether you agree or disagree with them.
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