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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. The doctor theorizes that whenever the people are healed, then the politics and government will be what?

2. Another section of the academy is full of people trying to do what regarding their language?

3. In one of the academy rooms, the pupils sit for six hours a day doing what?

4. Gulliver stays for how many months in the country?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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

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

5. What other figures does Gulliver call back from the dead, in Part 3, Chapter 8 and why? What else does he learn from them?

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

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

8. Describe the ship captain's attitude toward Gulliver, after hearing his incredible story. How does Gulliver react to the captain's attitude?

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

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

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

In writing about the Laputans, Swift takes an interesting stand on science, believing that, while it can be good, it can also consume people, if their theories aren't sound. Using examples from the book, as well as real life, explain, in detail, about whether or not you think science is a good thing or a bad thing and why.

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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