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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. In one of the academy rooms, the pupils sit for six hours a day doing what?
2. Gulliver leaves the governor and returns when?
3. Gulliver stays for how many months in the country?
4. Gulliver is introduced to the king who is hard at work on a problem that involves what?
5. Gulliver is questioned by guards there and he lies and tells them that he is what, so he can get into Japan?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Gulliver's choices of people to call back from the dead say about his motivations?
2. 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?
3. What happens to Gulliver in Glubbdubdribb?
4. 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?
5. Describe Gulliver's encounter with the pirates.
6. In Part 3, Chapter 5, how is Gulliver further introduced to the ideas and beliefs of the Laputians?
7. What are the people of Laputa like?
8. Why is the king's cousin, who befriends Gulliver, considered an outcast and do you think that it is fair? Why or why not?
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. How does Gulliver finally leave the island in Part 2, Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how the law about choosing people to work in the Liliputian government is written and how the emperor seems to ignore that law. Do modern community, nation and world leaders act the same way about appointing staff, still? Use modern examples to back up your opinion.
Essay Topic 2
Some of the people of Luggnagg are immortal. Have you ever wished to be immortal? After reading the book, have your thoughts on immortality changed at all? Explain, using examples from the book and real life, what your thoughts on immortality were before reading the book and what they are now.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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