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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. Gulliver describes the people as wearing clothes adorned with all of the following except what?
(a) books
(b) stars
(c) moons
(d) musical instruments

2. How many years ago does the lord explain that people went to visit the flying island and came down with all sorts of ideas?
(a) twenty
(b) forty
(c) thirty
(d) sixty

3. Gulliver hires a guide to help him to the island of what?
(a) AgglNugg
(b) Luggnagg
(c) Ugglenagg
(d) Nagglugg

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

5. It is believed that it is hard enough to live forever without having to live how?
(a) old forever
(b) with someone else forever
(c) alone forever
(d) young forever

Short Answer Questions

1. An eagle picks up Gulliver's box while he is where with the royals?

2. What does Gulliver find after 5 days?

3. In one academy room, philosophers try to do what?

4. Gulliver stays for how many months in the country?

5. The king threatens Gulliver with the loss of his life if Gulliver tells anyone else about what?

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 are the people of Laputa like?

3. What do you think Swift's ideas about modern science are, based on Part 3, Chapter 4?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?

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

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

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

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