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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. Where does the farmer's wife let Gulliver sleep?

2. Gulliver describes the island as a peninsula with what at the end?

3. What does the emperor do prior to Gulliver's sentencing?

4. Why does Gulliver say that he finally left the kingdom?

5. While Gulliver is sleeping, they bring in a mechanism that was made specifically to do what to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the emperor of the little people like? What type of personality does he seem to have?

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

3. How is the treatment Gulliver gets from the queen who buys him from the farmer, different from the treatment Gulliver got from the farmer?

4. What are the differences between how the giants in Part 2, Chapter 1 treat Gulliver initially and how the Lilliputians had treated him?

5. What are the ways in which Gulliver defines the relationship between Lilliput and Blefuscu?

6. How does Gulliver say that the Lilliputian children are raised?

7. 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?

8. Describe the misunderstanding that the emperor's men have about Gulliver's watch.

9. Describe some of the mishaps that Gulliver describes in part 2, chapter 5.

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

Choose any one of the times that Gulliver finds himself lost at sea and describe it in detail. How is he separated from his ship? How does he find land, finally? What sort of place does he find when he gets there, what people does he meet and what happens to him?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Gulliver and the king of giants have a long discussion about the government of England at the time. Swift makes it clear, through this discussion, that he has much distaste for the way things are run.

Part 1: Do you feel that modern governments have improved at all since Gulliver's times? Why or why not?

Part 2: If you were the ruler of a country, what sort of system of government would you want and why? Would you want a government like the one run by the giants? Why or why not?

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