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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 also likes the idea of taking political foes and exchanging half of each other's what?
2. Gulliver explains that there are some in the culture that are born with what color birthmark over their left eye?
3. The people decided that everything could be done better with the help of what?
4. Gulliver makes it clear that he thinks the king is what?
5. When Gulliver tells the king about the treasury of England, what is the king's reaction?
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 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?
3. How does Gulliver finally leave the island in Part 2, Chapter 8?
4. In Part 3, Chapter 5, how is Gulliver further introduced to the ideas and beliefs of the Laputians?
5. What lessons can be learned from the people of Laputa?
6. What are the people of Laputa like?
7. What lessons does Swift try to teach about heroes through Gulliver?
8. 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?
9. What lesson does Swift try to teach about life and death, in Part 3, Chapter 10?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Gulliver is clearly an explorer at heart, even though he is a doctor by profession. Do you feel that it was appropriate for him to keep going on voyages, even though he kept leaving his family and just barely avoiding death when he did? If you were Gulliver, would you have given up traveling? If so, why and when would you have decided to stay home? Use details from the story to support your opinions.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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