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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who argues that a senator should have to vote directly contrary to what he says in his speech, because then that will be what is best for the people.
(a) the king
(b) the doctor
(c) Gulliver
(d) the lord

2. Gulliver is introduced to the king who is hard at work on a problem that involves what?
(a) psychology
(b) astronomy
(c) mathematics
(d) history

3. Gulliver hopes to sail where from the island?
(a) America
(b) England
(c) Japan
(d) Africa

4. In order to speak to the king, Gulliver has to crawl on his belly and do what to the floor?
(a) wash it
(b) paint it
(c) polish it
(d) lick it

5. The people exceed Europe in what area?
(a) creativity
(b) history
(c) astronomy
(d) psychology

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the captain tell Gulliver has happened to the items Gulliver asks for?

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

4. How soon after returning to England does Gulliver start out on his next voyage?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Gulliver's choices of people to call back from the dead say about his motivations?

3. What point does Swift seem to be making in Part 2, Chapter 6 and how does he use the king to make it?

4. In what ways do Gulliver and the king disagree about the concept of war in Part 2, Chapter 7?

5. What are the people of Laputa like?

6. Explain how Gulliver tries to prove to the king that the people of England are smart.

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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