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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. In the last room, Gulliver observes that the students are doing what to words written on paper?

2. In one academy room, philosophers try to do what?

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

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

5. Which of the following is a house of the British parliament, according to Gulliver?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Laputa stay in the air and do you think that such an island really could exist by using modern technology?

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

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. Much of Part 3, Chapter 6, talks about Gulliver's encounter with a doctor who is full of ideas. One idea is that in order to cure the woes of the government, the people in the government must be seen to and whenever the people are healed, the politics and government will be healed. Gulliver thinks that that is a valid idea. Do you think that it was? Why or why not? Is such an idea still applicable in today's society?

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

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

9. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gulliver is a doctor by profession, but an explorer at heart. Do you feel that most people take on professions that they enjoy, or do they get stuck in careers that they hate for most of their lives? Why did Gulliver become a doctor when he really wanted to be an explorer? What are some reasons that people in modern times do things that they'd rather not do.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Gulliver's encounter with the pirates is interesting. It brings up questions of ethics.

Part 1: Explain, in detail, Gulliver's encounter with the pirates and his discovery of Laputa.

Part 2: How does modern piracy of things, such as computer software, compare and contrast to the piracy that Gulliver encountered.

Part 3: Is modern software piracy really any different from piracy in Gulliver's times? Do people justify modern piracy? If so, in what ways?

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