Gulliver’s Travels

Test Review

Character matching

• Portuguese sea captain

• Captain Pedro de Mendez

• odious beasts who resemble humans

• Yahoos

• group of immortals

• struldbrugs

• Gulliver’s guide in Lagado

• Lord Munodi

• secretary of treasury in Lilliput

• Flimnap

• Glumdalclitch’s name for Gulliver

• Grildrig

• admiral of the realm of Lilliput

• Skyresh Bolgolam

• Gulliver’s nurse in Brobdingnag

• Glumdalclitch

• secretary of private affairs in Lilliput

• Reldresal

• narrator of Gulliver’s Travels

• Lemuel Gulliver

True or False

• The argument between the Big-Endians

and the Little-Endians represents a

quarrel between the Catholics and the

Protestants of Swift’s day.

True

• Gulliver enjoys living with the

Houyhnhnms and doesn’t want to leave

their country.

True

• In A Voyage to Lilliput, the author

satirizes the governments of France and

England.

true

• Gulliver is delighted to take the tour of the

cities of Brobdingnag with his master, the

farmer, as his performances in these

cities make him rich.

false

• Lilliputians consider fraud more serious

than theft.

True

• Obedience to the law in Lilliput is

encouraged by reward and punishment.

True

• The object that the Lilliputians suppose is

Gulliver’s god is his hat.

False

• The woman of Laputa are symbols of

loyal wives.

true

• The Laputians are continually worried that

the world will be destroyed.

True

• The Laputians are very awkward and

clumsy in the common affairs of life.

True

• The people of Laputa are excellent

conversationalists.

False

• The King of Brobdingnag has great

respect and sympathy for Europeans after

he learns about them from Gulliver.

False

• There is constant civil strife among the

Brobdingnagians.

False

• The Brobdingnagians are bookish people,

indulging in much abstract learning.

False

• At the end of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver

tells that what he hates most about

humans is their unreasonable pride.

True

• The grand maxim among the

Houyhnhnms is to cultivate reason and

live according to its dictates.

True

• The Lilliputians are about sixty feet tall.

• False

• The Yahoos are used, in the land of

Houyhnhnms, as teachers of the young

colts.

False

• On the island of Glubbdubdrib, Gulliver is

able to interview any historical person he

wants.

True

• The Yahoos are a vicious caricature of

the human race.

True

Multiple Choice

• The author’s treatment of his theme and

subject is (a) sober and direct; (b)

lighthearted and humorous; (c) absurd

and ridiculous.

A

• As a test for high office in Lilliput,

candidates demonstrate their ability by (a)

doing a dance on a tight rope; (b) jumping

through a flaming loop; (c) competing in

oratorical contests.

a

• Lemuel Gulliver is a (a) ship’s doctor; (b)

merchant; (c) common sailor.

a

• In discussing methods of choosing publicofficials in the original institutions ofLilliput, Swift is trying to impress thereader with the fact that (a) intellect ismore important than morals in carryingout public duties; (b) an ignorant person ismore dangerous than a corrupt, brilliantperson; (c) morals are more importantthan great abilities in carrying out publicduties.

c

• Gulliver repeatedly goes to sea to (a)

escape his nagging wife; (b) improve his

fortunes; (c) explore for the Queen.

b

• When the Lilliputian emperor wants to

reduce Blefuscu to a province of Lilliput,

Gulliver (a) is delighted with this plan; (b)

refuses to be a party to such a plan; (c)

draws up plans for ruling the new territory.

b

• The struldbrugs are (a) Brobdingnagians

who live forever; (b) Luggnaggians who

never die; (c) a race of giants.

b

• Gulliver is marooned on Lilliput because

of (a) pirates; (b) a mutiny; (c) a

shipwreck.

c

• The emperor of Lilliput confers uponGulliver the highest title of honor becauseGulliver (a) saves the royal palace fromdestruction by fire; (b) captures the navyof Blefuscu; (c) settles the controversybetween the Big-Endians andLittle-Endians.

b

• The Assembly of Houyhnhnms decides tobanish Gulliver from their land becausehe (a) has formed too many emotionalattachments with female Yahoos; (b) maymake use of the Yahoos against them; (c)refuses to help them exterminate theYahoos.

b

• Which of the following is NOT a part ofthe terms for Gulliver’s freedom inLilliput? (a) He must not depart withoutpermission; (b) His walks must beconfined to the principal roads in the city;(c) He may never return to England.

c

• When Gulliver is banished from the landof the Houyhnhnms, his intentions are to(a) return to his family and work inEngland as soon as possible; (b) return tothe land of the admirableBrobdingnagians; (c) find someuninhabited island to spend the rest of hislife.

c

• The emperor’s court at Lilliput decides

that for alleged treason Gulliver’s

punishment will be (a) being buried alive;

(b) banishment from Lilliput; (c) being

blinded.

c

• When Gulliver tells the Brobdingnagianking about English political life, the king(a) is impressed with English governmentand morality; (b) sends one of hisgreatest scholars to study the Englishform of government; (c) thinks itcontemptible that such little creatures arecapable of such great conflicts betweenthem.

c

• When Gulliver returns home, after his

fourth voyage, he spends most of his time

with his (a) horses; (b) children; (c)

minister.

a

• Through the scientists of Laputa andBalnibarbi, Swift is attacking the (a)tremendous expense involved in scientificexperiments; (b) complete reliance ofintellect to solve all human problems; (c)substitution of science for liberal arts inschools.

b

• An unusual requirement of Christian

visitors in Japan is to (a) attend the

Japanese church at least once a day; (b)

pledge allegiance to the Japanese king;

(c) trample on the Christian cross.

c

• The principal lesson that Swift teaches inGulliver’s Travels is (a) humans arehopelessly bad, like the Yahoo; (b) theonly good life is a life of absolute reason,like the Houyhnhnms; (c) humans,imperfect creatures, can neverthelesslead a good life if they recognize theirown limitations and overcome their pride.

c

• The Yahoos live in (a) Lilliput; (b)

Brobdingnag; (c) the country of the

Houyhnhnms.

c

• Gulliver is away on his voyages for the

greater part of (a) five years; (b) eleven

years; (c) seventeen years.

c