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

2. This island has magicians and sorcerers on it and the main power on the island is that of a family of magicians who use what as servants?
(a) rabbits
(b) puppets
(c) the dead
(d) living magic hats

3. The people had tried to do away with the language altogether, but the illiterate and whom were in an uproar?
(a) the men
(b) the children
(c) the leaders
(d) the women

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

5. The king threatens Gulliver with the loss of his life if Gulliver tells anyone else about what?
(a) gunpowder
(b) British parliament houses
(c) armies
(d) rifles

Short Answer Questions

1. Gulliver explains that there are some in the culture that are born with what color birthmark over their left eye?

2. At the port city, Gulliver is directed to go where until he can find passage to the island?

3. What happens to children with the birthmark?

4. Which of these does Gulliver see?

5. Gulliver finds that it is not a good life because although they never die, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lessons does Swift try to teach about heroes through Gulliver?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What are the people of Laputa like?

7. How does Laputa stay in the air and do you think that such an island really could exist by using modern technology?

8. What identifies the immortals in the culture, in Part 3, Chapter 10, and what sorts of things must these immortals endure?

9. Customs of different people are a big part of the book. What custom must Gulliver follow in Part 3, Chapter 9 and how, in general, does Gulliver deal with the customs of people he encounters?

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

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