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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he awakes, what kind of people surround Gulliver?

2. When the men go onto an island to find water, Gulliver becomes separated from them and then sees them rowing back to the boat with what following them?

3. A couple days after Gulliver's game is played, some men find a strange object where?

4. Who came to see Gulliver, after he was rescued from the animal?

5. What do the people occasionally catch in the sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the king's attitude toward Gulliver in all of Part 2, Chapter 5?

2. Gulliver is a doctor, but his heart seems to lie with exploring the world around him. What evidence supports that, in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. Instead of sending Gulliver back to Lilliput, what does the emperor of Blefuscu do?

4. Describe the relationship between Gulliver and the farmer's daughter.

5. Describe how the little men that Gulliver encounters seem to treat him. Are they afraid of him? Why or why not?

6. What are the circumstances of Gulliver's eventual freedom?

7. About a month after Gulliver is freed, the principal secretary pays him a visit. What does the secretary explain to Gulliver about the problems facing the Lilliputians and how does Gulliver's freedom factor in?

8. Why does the secretary tell Gulliver that the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu are at war?

9. How does Gulliver say that criminals are treated by the Lilliputians?

10. Why doesn't the emperor want Gulliver alive anymore and how does this reveal the emperor's true nature?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how which of the Luggnagg people are immortal is determined, in detail. Also, what rules are the immortals subject to? What happens to them as they get older? Do you think the treatment that they receive is fair? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The Lilliputian government officials are determined in a very unusual way through a rope dance.

Part 1. Explain how the rope dance works.

Part 2. Do you feel that the rope dance is a good way to elect officials? Why or why not?

Part 3. What point do you feel that the author, Jonathan Swift, is trying to make about the way that governments are run, by writing about the rope dance?

Essay Topic 3

Gulliver's Travels is full of interesting things to think about and life lessons. Choose three things that you learned from the book that made you stop to think. Explain in detail why you were intrigued by those things and whether or not they ultimately changed your point of view.

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