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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gulliver makes it clear that he thinks the king is what?
(a) naive
(b) crazy
(c) brilliant
(d) foolhardy

2. What does Gulliver find after 5 days?
(a) a city under water
(b) an island in the sky
(c) a mountain in the sky
(d) a talking whale

3. In order to prove the English smart, what does Gulliver tell the king about?
(a) law practices in England
(b) land ownership rights in England
(c) rifles and their uses
(d) gunpowder's invention and uses

4. Gulliver is upset to find that in the past couple hundred years, humans have actually degenerated when it came to what?
(a) advancing technology
(b) making good decisions
(c) looking out for each other
(d) taking care of themselves

5. How does Gulliver feel about the way the king views Gulliver's country?
(a) He is confused.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He doesn't care.
(d) He is insulted.

6. Gulliver explains that there are some in the culture that are born with what color birthmark over their left eye?
(a) yellow
(b) red
(c) purple
(d) blue

7. When the magnet is parallel to the horizon, the island does what?
(a) raises
(b) stands still
(c) moves left
(d) lowers

8. In the last room, Gulliver observes that the students are doing what to words written on paper?
(a) burning them
(b) re-writing them
(c) eating them
(d) erasing them

9. What does Gulliver make out of the beard stubble of the king?
(a) a tooth brush
(b) a comb
(c) a scrub brush
(d) a hair brush

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

11. Gulliver finds that the way the island floats is by what?
(a) air jets
(b) cloud
(c) suspended by flying machines
(d) magnet

12. When it is found that Gulliver and the king cannot understand each other, Gulliver is taken where and given food?
(a) the dungeons
(b) the king's rooms
(c) the dining hall
(d) the guest quarters

13. How soon after returning to England does Gulliver start out on his next voyage?
(a) two weeks
(b) six months
(c) two months
(d) four months

14. Gulliver feels neglected because everyone on the island is only interested in math and what?
(a) history
(b) literature
(c) music
(d) chemistry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The people exceed Europe in what area?

2. The people had tried to do away with the language altogether, but the illiterate and whom were in an uproar?

3. When Gulliver tells the king about the treasury of England, what is the king's reaction?

4. In order to speak to the king, Gulliver has to crawl on his belly and do what to the floor?

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

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