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- 1. Multiple Choice
In Gulliver's Travels, "Journey to Lilliput" what is being satirized?
England's treatment of the Irish
The schism of the Catholic & Protestant Churches
The plight of the poor Irish children
The Catholic Church
- 2. Multiple ChoiceIn Gulliver's Travels, what are the Lilliputians quarreling about that leads to war?what to do with Gulliverwho owns the land of Blefuscuwhich end of the egg to break openhow to elect political leaders
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWho/what do the "Little-Endians" represent/symbolize?EnglandThe Catholic ChurchFranceThe Church of England
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat English invention does the King of Brobdingnag forbid Gulliver to ever dicuss again?bowler hatsafternoon teafish & chipsgunpowder
- 5. Multiple ChoiceIn Gulliver's Travels, what is Swift satirizing when he writes about the Lilliputian wars?political warsland warsreligious warsfamily rivalries
- 6. Multiple ChoiceGulliver visited _______ islands on his travelstwothreefourfive
- 7. Multiple ChoiceHow does Gulliver arrive in Lilliput?He gets lost in the forest.He finds it by using a map.He is shipwrecked in a storm.He is dreaming.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe Lilliputians were a little bigger than Gulliver'sArmHandLeghead
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu? *BreadLandIce creamEggs
- 10. Multiple ChoiceGulliver uses his glasses as a shield. What is he shielding his eyes from?the enemies arrowsthe water getting in his eyesboth of those
- 11. Multiple ChoiceSwift's first voyage is to Lilliput. His second voyage is to where?LilliputBrobdingnagBig-EndiansLittle-Endians
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat is ironic about Gulliver using glasses as a shield in a military operation?They are a fragile shield, yet the glasses protect his eyes.Usually glasses are used for reading and writing, not in war.Both of those
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which was NOT the author's purpose from Gulliver's Travels?
to make death seem real
to improve human conduct
to satirize petty differences between political parties
- 14. Multiple ChoiceHow does the author of Gulliver's Travels intend the conflicts of the Lilliputians to seem to the reader?terribly tragicperfectly ordinarysurprisingly complexremarkably ridiculous
- 15. Multiple Choice
The Laputans, though they are great thinkers, are not efficient because:
They don't put their knowledge to practical use
They never start a project
they are lazy
they use the people of Balnibarbi for servants
- 16. Multiple Choice
Gulliver concludes that living forever is not so desirable because he:
would become ill forever
would get bored
would run out of money
sees what the Struldbrugs have become
- 17. Multiple ChoiceHow does the royal family treat Gulliver?like something annoyinglike a petlike a circus performer
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe people on Brobdingnag were ______________ and Gulliver was ___________.Giants; tinytiny; a giant
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the name of the second island Gulliver visited?BrobdingnagLilliputBlefuscuLaputa
- 20. Multiple ChoiceHow does Gulliver arrive in Lilliput?He gets lost in the forest.He finds it by using a map.He is shipwrecked in a storm.He is dreaming.
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe Lilliputians fight with who? --- Over the correct way to break an egg.BlefuscuBrobdingnagEachother
- 22. Multiple ChoiceBy making fun of all the fighting, could Swift be saying that all wars are absurd?YesNoDon't know
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhy isn't Lemuel smiling and waving after beating his opponents?He has no reason to be proud. He is simply bigger than them.He did what he felt was needed to be done.He has no personal stake in the outcome .all of those
- 24. Multiple ChoiceHow does the author of Gulliver's Travels intend the conflicts of the Lilliputians to seem to the reader?terribly tragicperfectly ordinarysurprisingly complexremarkably ridiculous
- 25. Multiple ChoiceGulliver's Travels is considered a parody because itoffers a humorous criticism of societycontains exotic and fantastic elementsis a fictional account of a person's travelsis a humorous imitation of a particular type of literary work
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