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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another section of the academy is full of people trying to do what regarding their language?
(a) translate their language to English
(b) add words and their meanings to the language
(c) translate their language to French
(d) make their language shorter and less confusing

2. Which of the following is not a reason that Gulliver is being brought up on charges by the Lilliputians.
(a) being friendly to the ambassadors
(b) secretly marrying a woman from Blefuscu
(c) not following orders about destroying the people of Blefuscu
(d) planning to sail tot he enemy's land

3. Which of the following punishments do the people settle on for Gulliver?
(a) poke his eyes out and slowly starve him
(b) kill him immediately by hanging
(c) poke his eyes out and banish him to the woods
(d) cut off his nose and slowly starve him

4. What does the emperor do prior to Gulliver's sentencing?
(a) He tries to convince the people that Gulliver is evil.
(b) He sends out a decree.
(c) He disappears.
(d) He resigns his post.

5. In one academy room, philosophers try to do what?
(a) solve any problems about the nature of humans
(b) figure out how the world was created
(c) decide whether there is life in outer space
(d) discuss the meaning of life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gulliver make out of the beard stubble of the king?

2. The last room of the academy is one for what?

3. How long is Gulliver told it will be before the reading of the articles?

4. Why does Gulliver say that he finally left the kingdom?

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

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