Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - Quiz
Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • 1. What is the name of the protagonist in 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Lemuel Gulliver
B) Tommy
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Pedro
  • 2. What is the first country Gulliver visits?
A) Japan
B) Lilliput
C) Laputa
D) Brobdingnag
  • 3. What is the flying island that Gulliver visits?
A) Lilliput
B) Brobdingnag
C) Gulliver's Isle
D) Laputa
  • 4. What is the main theme of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Critique of human nature
B) Romantic love
C) Adventure and exploration
D) Religious faith
  • 5. In which part of the book does Gulliver encounter the floating island?
A) Part III
B) Part IV
C) Part I
D) Part II
  • 6. What do the Yahoos resemble?
A) Monkeys
B) Human beings
C) Pigs
D) Cats
  • 7. Which character is known for their rigid adherence to rules in Lilliput?
A) The emperor
B) Gulliver
C) The philosopher
D) The general
  • 8. What type of creatures inhabit the land of Houyhnbnms?
A) Humans
B) Horses
C) Dogs
D) Birds
  • 9. Who is the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Henry Fielding
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Samuel Richardson
D) Daniel Defoe
  • 10. What year was 'Gulliver's Travels' published?
A) 1719
B) 1704
C) 1735
D) 1726
  • 11. Which profession did Lemuel Gulliver hold before becoming a captain of several ships?
A) Surgeon
B) Merchant
C) Teacher
D) Lawyer
  • 12. Who remarked that 'Gulliver's Travels' is read by everyone from the cabinet council to the nursery?
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Gay
C) Samuel Johnson
D) William Thackeray
  • 13. How was 'Gulliver's Travels' originally classified by Swift?
A) As a political satire.
B) As a travelogue
C) As children's literature
D) As a romance novel
  • 14. What are the inhabitants of Lilliput known for?
A) Being giants
B) Living peacefully with humans
C) Practicing advanced mathematics
D) Engaging in petty political disputes.
  • 15. In which land does Lemuel Gulliver find himself among giants?
A) Houyhnhnm
B) Lilliput
C) Laputa
D) Brobdingnag
  • 16. What type of beings does Gulliver encounter in Laputa?
A) Tiny people
B) Impractical intellectuals disconnected from reality.
C) Savage human-like creatures
D) Peaceful horses
  • 17. Who are the savage human-like creatures found alongside rational beings in Houyhnhnm?
A) Brobdingnagians
B) Laputans
C) Yahoos.
D) Lilliputians
  • 18. What was Swift's stated intention for writing 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) To document real travels
B) To promote scientific discovery
C) To entertain children
D) To vex the world rather than divert it.
  • 19. How did William Thackeray describe 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) As enlightening
B) As blasphemous.
C) As romantic
D) As humorous
  • 20. What is the status of 'Gulliver's Travels' in modern times?
A) It is only studied by historians
B) It is considered outdated
C) It is largely forgotten
D) It remains popular due to its insightful social commentary.
  • 21. What is Swift's position among Irish authors in terms of publication?
A) He is the most widely read and translated.
B) He is mostly studied by historians
C) He is only popular in Ireland
D) He is least known
  • 22. What was a likely reason Swift had another writer copy his manuscript?
A) To improve the writing style
B) To avoid legal issues due to its political satire.
C) To translate it into other languages
D) To shorten the novel
  • 23. What language is referred to as 'Liliputian' in the novel?
A) A made-up language.
B) Greek
C) Hebrew
D) Latin
  • 24. What does Gulliver do to aid the Lilliputians against Blefuscu?
A) Trains them in warfare tactics
B) Negotiates a peace treaty
C) Provides them with weapons
D) Steals their naval fleet
  • 25. What does Gulliver carry with him when he leaves Lilliput?
A) Maps and charts
B) Some Lilliputian animals
C) Gold and jewels
D) Weapons for defense
  • 26. How tall is the farmer who finds Gulliver in Brobdingnag?
A) Approximately 100 feet (30 m) tall.
B) Around 50 feet (15 m) tall.
C) He is of average human height.
D) About 72 feet (22 m) tall.
  • 27. How does Laputa control rebellious cities on the ground?
A) With a powerful army.
B) By throwing rocks down at them.
C) Through diplomatic negotiations.
D) Using spies and informants.
  • 28. What is the name of the ship Gulliver commands at the beginning of Part IV?
A) a fishing boat
B) a merchantman
C) a battleship
D) a pirate vessel
  • 29. What happens to Gulliver's crew during the voyage in Part IV?
A) They desert him willingly.
B) They are captured by pirates.
C) They become loyal companions.
D) They commit mutiny against him.
  • 30. What dynamic do some scholars identify between the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?
A) A brother/sister relationship.
B) An equal partnership.
C) A master/slave dynamic.
D) A predator/prey relationship.
  • 31. What was the price of the first edition of Gulliver's Travels?
A) 10s.
B) 12s. 3d.
C) 5s.
D) 8s. 6d.
  • 32. Who contributed Verses on Gulliver's Travels that Swift liked?
A) Edmund Curll.
B) John Gay.
C) Benjamin Motte.
D) Alexander Pope.
  • 33. Who was believed to have annotated the copy of Motte's work that Faulkner had access to?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) George Faulkner
C) Charles Ford
D) William Wood
  • 34. What does the city of Lindalino allegorically represent in Part III?
A) Laputa
B) Dublin
C) Brobdingnag
D) London
  • 35. Which British imposition is represented by the impositions of Laputa?
A) The Navigation Acts
B) William Wood's poor-quality copper currency
C) The Stamp Act
D) The Sugar Act
  • 36. Which author's work does Gulliver's Travels systematically rebut according to the text?
A) Jane Austen
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Mary Shelley
D) Charles Dickens
  • 37. What does Gulliver find in each of his travels?
A) A friend
B) A treasure
C) An enemy
D) A new language
  • 38. Who returns Gulliver to England at the end of the book?
A) The king of Brobdingnag
B) The Portuguese captain, Don Pedro
C) Captain Robinson
D) A Laputan scientist
  • 39. What does Gulliver frequently use to describe magnified images in Brobdingnag?
A) Words of admiration and respect.
B) Neutral descriptions without emotion.
C) Reflective and philosophical terms.
D) The sensory word 'nauseous'.
  • 40. Which voyage does Arthur Case highlight as crucial for Gulliver's development of misanthropy?
A) The third voyage
B) The first voyage
C) The fourth voyage
D) The second voyage
  • 41. What does Gulliver see at the center of human nature?
A) Perfect civility
B) Bleak fallenness
C) Inherent goodness
D) Unwavering reason
  • 42. Which British statesman is Flimnap likely an allusion to?
A) Henry Pelham
B) William Pitt the Elder
C) Robert Harley
D) Sir Robert Walpole
  • 43. What does the Academy of Lagado in Part III satirize?
A) Colonial administrations
B) The Royal Society
C) The British Parliament
D) London universities
  • 44. Which financial scandal is associated with the term 'projectors' in Part III?
A) The Tulip Mania
B) The South Sea Bubble
C) The Great Depression
D) The Mississippi Company collapse
  • 45. What role does Swift's satire extend to, beyond political projectors?
A) Religious leaders
B) Historians of the time
C) The satirist himself
D) Literary critics
  • 46. What term does Swift use to describe oppression in both Ireland and Houyhnhnmland?
A) Tyranny
B) Slavery
C) Despotism
D) Colonialism
  • 47. Who claimed that deciphering the Lilliputian language was a waste of time?
A) Viscount Bolingbroke
B) James Beattie
C) Irving Rothman
D) Isaac Asimov
  • 48. Who praised Swift's work for its 'truth' and satire?
A) James Beattie
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Viscount Bolingbroke
D) William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 49. Who criticized Swift for his overt use of misanthropy?
A) James Beattie
B) Viscount Bolingbroke
C) William Makepeace Thackeray
D) Isaac Asimov
  • 50. What does the term 'Brobdingnagian' mean according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
A) Small and delicate
B) Intelligent and cunning
C) Very large or gigantic
D) Rude and violent
  • 51. What is the term 'yahoo' often used to describe?
A) A small and delicate object
B) A rude, noisy, or violent person
C) An intelligent being
D) A very large creature
  • 52. Who wrote 'Le Nouveau Gulliver'?
A) Abbé Pierre Desfontaines
B) Jorge Luis Borges
C) Frigyes Karinthy
D) Isaac Asimov
  • 53. In Robert Heinlein's 'Starman Jones', what type of beings dominate humanoids?
A) Giant humans
B) Intelligent 'horses'
C) Small people with golf balls for heads
D) Underwater women
  • 54. Which Hungarian writer wrote satirical novels featuring Gulliver?
A) Abbé Pierre Desfontaines
B) Frigyes Karinthy
C) Edgar Brau
D) Jorge Luis Borges
  • 55. What is the theme of Frigyes Karinthy's novel 'Voyage to Faremido'?
A) Underwater worlds
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Primitive men
D) Political satire
  • 56. What is the name of the fictitious race in 'Gravity Falls' that resembles Lilliputians?
A) Yahoos
B) Lilliputtians
C) Endians
D) Brobdingnagians
  • 57. Who composed the 'Gulliver Suite' for two violins?
A) Georg Philipp Telemann
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 58. What is the title of the 1965 Japanese animated film featuring Gulliver?
A) Gulliver in Outer Space
B) The Adventures of Gulliver: Space Edition
C) Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
D) Gulliver's Lunar Adventure
  • 59. Which film starring Richard Harris was released in 1977?
A) Gulliver's Travels, a British-Belgian film
B) Gulliver's New Journey
C) The Adventures of Gulliver: The Movie
D) Gulliver and the Giants
  • 60. Which 1996 animated film was produced by Golden Films?
A) Gulliver's Travels, a 1996 animated film
B) Gulliver's Animated Journey
C) The Adventures of Gulliver: The Animation
D) Gulliver in Cartoon Land
  • 61. Which 1996 American TV miniseries featured Ted Danson as Gulliver?
A) The Adventures of Gulliver: The Series
B) Gulliver's Travels, a 1996 American TV miniseries
C) Gulliver's New World
D) Ted Danson in Lilliput
  • 62. Which film is a 2010 American production starring Jack Black?
A) Gulliver's Modern Journey
B) Gulliver's Travels, a 2010 American film
C) Jack Black and the Giants
D) The Adventures of Gulliver: The New Age
  • 63. In which year was 'Gulliver's Travels' adapted as part of the Favorite Story series?
A) 2005
B) 2012
C) 1948
D) 1999
  • 64. Who starred in the 2012 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Arthur Darvill
B) Matthew Broughton
C) Neil Pearson
D) Brian Gulliver
  • 65. Which edition of 'Gulliver's Travels' is edited by Robert DeMaria Jr.?
A) Penguin, 2008
B) W.W. Norton, 2009
C) Oxford University Press, 2005
D) W.W. Norton, 2001
  • 66. What is the basis for the text of 'Gulliver's Travels' in The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift?
A) Faulkner's 1735 edition
B) 2012 BBC Radio adaptation
C) 2008 Penguin edition
D) 1726 edition
  • 67. Who edited the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift as of 2005?
A) Ian Higgins
B) Herbert Davis et al.
C) Claude Rawson
D) Robert DeMaria Jr.
  • 68. Which radio adaptation of 'Gulliver's Travels' was part of the Radio Tales series?
A) Brian Gulliver's Travels
B) 2012
C) 1999
D) 1948
  • 69. Who adapted 'Gulliver's Travels' for the 2012 BBC Radio 4 production?
A) Claude Rawson
B) Herbert Davis
C) Matthew Broughton
D) Robert DeMaria Jr.
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