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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. Gulliver finds that the way the island floats is by what?
2. Gulliver lodges where, rather than with the governor?
3. How long is it between the time that Gulliver escapes and the time that he returns to England?
4. Gulliver talks with other professors about things like taxing a person based on what?
5. Gulliver describes the people as wearing clothes adorned with all of the following except what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.
2. In Part 3, Chapter 6, Swift again makes his views of the British government known. What are those views, how does he express them and do they still apply to modern governments?
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 happens to Gulliver, once he reaches Luggnagg?
5. When the king asks Gulliver to tell him about England, what are some of the things that Gulliver tells him?
6. What lessons does Swift try to teach about heroes through Gulliver?
7. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.
8. What are the people of Laputa like?
9. How does Laputa stay in the air and do you think that such an island really could exist by using modern technology?
10. 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?
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'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?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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