Gulliver's Travels - Quiz
A) Merchant B) Pirate C) Surgeon D) Captain
A) He is bored with his employment B) He is looking for his family C) He is exiled from England D) He needs money
A) They mutiny and become pirates B) They join the Houyhnhnms C) They return him safely to England D) They abandon him on an island with gold
A) Cast adrift in a landing boat B) Washing ashore in a large chest C) In a hot air balloon D) Swimming after a shipwreck
A) A race of merchants B) Deformed savage humanoid creatures C) Wise and generous human sailors D) Intelligent, civilized horses
A) Portuguese captains B) Mutinous crew members C) Civilized horses D) Deformed savage humanoid creatures
A) He considers them wise and courteous B) He views them as equals C) He admires and emulates them D) He conceives a violent antipathy
A) Captain Pedro de Mendez's household B) Benjamin Motte's household C) A Yahoo chieftain's household D) A horse's household
A) He finds them savage and cruel B) He ignores their customs C) He tries to conquer them D) He comes to both admire and emulate them
A) As merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason B) As victims of the Houyhnhnms C) As gentle creatures like the horses D) As superior and civilized beings
A) He is a fully civilized horse B) He must be kept as a pet forever C) He should become their new leader D) He is a danger to their civilization
A) Teach the Yahoos how to speak B) Swim back to the land that he came from C) Join the Yahoos in the wild D) Stay in the stables forever
A) Benjamin Motte B) Captain Pedro de Mendez C) Alexander Pope D) His Houyhnhnm Master
A) An English merchantman B) A Portuguese ship C) His mutinous crew D) The Scriblerus Club
A) Rescued against his will B) Rescued by a horse C) Rescued by a tribe of Yahoos D) Rescued eagerly and gratefully
A) He immediately attacks him as a dangerous Yahoo B) He is disgusted to see that he is a wise, courteous, and generous person C) He ignores him completely as a beast D) He begs him to take him back to the horses
A) He becomes the captain of a new ship B) He writes a book with Alexander Pope C) He returns to his work as a surgeon D) He becomes a recluse
A) Working closely with his family and wife B) Writing poetry for the Scriblerus Club C) Spending several hours a day speaking with the horses in his stables D) Traveling the world as a merchant
A) It is uncertain B) 1710 C) 1726 D) 1720
A) Dublin B) Lilliput C) Loughry Manor D) London
A) Promoting Whig politics B) Breeding intelligent horses C) Publishing Irish pamphlets D) Satirising popular literary genres
A) Swift B) Curll C) Motte D) Pope
A) 1723 B) 1726 C) 1720 D) 1713
A) Part IV only B) Parts III and IV C) Parts I and II D) Part III only
A) 1720 B) 1723 C) 1724 D) 1725
A) 1725 B) 1724 C) 1720 D) 1723
A) August 1725 B) December 1715 C) March 1726 D) October 1726
A) Strictly neutral historical account B) Pro-Queen Anne defense C) Pro-Whig political pamphlet D) Transparently anti-Whig satire
A) To send copies to all members of the Scriblerus Club B) To give a copy to Captain Pedro de Mendez C) So his writing could not be used as evidence if a prosecution arose D) To print multiple editions in Ireland simultaneously
A) September 1710 B) October 1726 C) August 1725 D) March 1726
A) Benjamin Motte B) Alexander Pope C) Martinus Scriblerus D) Edmund Curll
A) Three B) Ten C) Five D) Two
A) To hide the book from Queen Anne B) To lower the cost of paper C) To print different parts in different languages D) To speed production and avoid piracy
A) The rebellion of Lindalino B) Some material in defence of Queen Anne C) Verses written by Alexander Pope D) Descriptions of court contests in Lilliput
A) March 1726 B) 5 December 1715 C) 28 October 1726 D) August 1725
A) Three volumes B) Two volumes C) One volume D) Four volumes
A) 2s. 6d. B) 8s. 6d. C) 10s. 6d. D) 5s. 0d.
A) Under Swift's real name B) Anonymously C) Under Martinus Scriblerus D) Under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver
A) Benjamin Motte B) Alexander Pope C) Edmund Curll D) Captain Pedro de Mendez
A) Tale of a Tub B) Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput C) Gulliver's Travels D) Drapier's Letters
A) He disavowed them in Faulkner's edition of 1735 B) He bought all copies to prevent piracy C) He wrote follow-up parodies himself D) He praised them in his correspondence
A) Benjamin Motte B) Alexander Pope C) Edmund Curll D) Martinus Scriblerus
A) To the second edition of the book B) To the Drapier's Letters C) To Faulkner's edition of 1735 only D) To the first edition published by Motte
A) 20 June 1702 B) 5 August 1706 C) 16 April 1710 D) 3 June 1706
A) Laputa B) Brobdingnag C) Lagado D) Adventure
A) About 50 feet B) About 72 feet C) About 100 feet D) About 10 yards
A) 10 yards B) 20 yards C) 5 yards D) 72 feet
A) Glumdalclitch B) The queen of the realm C) The court dwarf D) The Emperor of Japan
A) Glumdalclitch asks him to B) The farmer runs out of money C) Gulliver escapes to the palace D) The constant display makes Gulliver sick
A) Grand Academy B) Flying island C) Travelling box D) Magician's dwelling
A) A giant eagle B) A monkey C) A jealous court dwarf D) A pirate
A) A giant eagle B) A monkey C) A court dwarf D) A sailor
A) A jealous court dwarf B) The King of Brobdingnag C) A low-ranking courtier D) A magician
A) Glubbdubdrib B) Luggnagg C) Balnibarbi D) Langden
A) Brobdingnag B) India C) Japan D) England
A) Luggnagg B) Laputa C) Maldonada D) Lagado
A) Southwest B) Northwest C) Northeast D) Southeast
A) A farmer's home B) A magician's dwelling C) A courtier's residence D) The Emperor's palace
A) Pierre Gassendi B) René Descartes C) Julius Caesar D) Aristotle
A) Science versus practical results B) Europe versus Brobdingnag C) Youth versus old age D) Ancients versus moderns
A) Seventy B) Eighty C) Ninety D) Seventy-two
A) Discussing European politics B) Trampling upon the crucifix C) Exhibiting for money D) Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers
A) 5 August 1706 B) 3 June 1706 C) 16 April 1710 D) 20 June 1702
A) 13 April 1702 B) 4 May 1702 C) 4 May 1699 D) 13 April 1699
A) Exactly 15 feet B) Less than 6 inches C) More than 6 feet D) Less than 15 inches
A) More than 50 cm B) Less than 15 cm C) Less than 6 cm D) Exactly 6 cm
A) Arriving on a passing ship B) Sailing an abandoned boat C) Washed ashore after a shipwreck D) Flying in a hot air balloon
A) Blefuscu B) Back home directly C) A larger continent D) A deserted island
A) The naval fleet of Blefuscu B) Boxes of tiny eggs C) A miniature crown D) Lilliputian animals
A) William Thackeray B) John Gay C) Jonathan Swift D) Lemuel Gulliver
A) Travellers' tales B) Heroic epic C) Historical biography D) Gothic romance
A) Brobdingnag B) Laputa C) Lilliput D) The land of the Houyhnhnms
A) Greek B) French C) Hebrew D) Latin
A) Mixed and controversial B) Ignored by the public C) Overwhelmingly positive D) Overwhelmingly negative
A) Lack of creativity B) Excessive misanthropy C) Childish humor D) Political neutrality
A) John Gay B) Lemuel Gulliver C) William Thackeray D) Jonathan Swift
A) Liliputian language B) Laputan terminology C) Yahoo dialect D) Brobdingnagian speech
A) Warren Montag B) Daniel Defoe C) Charles Ford D) George Faulkner
A) Thomas Hobbes B) George Faulkner C) Charles Ford D) Daniel Defoe
A) Dublin B) Brobdingnag C) London D) Laputa
A) 1726 B) 1740 C) 1735 D) 1899
A) Robinson Crusoe B) The Battle of the Books C) Drapier's Letters D) The Unthinkable Swift
A) Governments are always ideal B) Society precedes the individual C) Science brings progress to society D) The individual precedes society
A) Charles Ford B) Allan Bloom C) Thomas Hobbes D) Daniel Defoe
A) Robinson B) Don Pedro C) Sympson D) Motte
A) George Faulkner B) Warren Montag C) Charles Ford D) Allan Bloom
A) Seven years B) Four years C) Eight years D) Ten years
A) Glass jars with open tops B) Phials hermetically sealed C) Wooden barrels D) Leather pouches
A) Two B) Three C) Four D) Five
A) The Yahoos B) The Lilliputians C) The Lindalino rebels D) The Houyhnhnms
A) Simple, complex, natural, scientific B) Natural, scientific, simple, complex C) Complex, simple, scientific, natural D) Scientific, natural, complex, simple
A) Better, better, worse, worse B) Worse, better, worse, better C) Worse, worse, better, better D) Better, worse, better, worse
A) Robinson B) Motte C) Don Pedro D) Sympson
A) Racism B) Plagiarism C) Treason D) Misogyny
A) An English lady B) A Lilliputian queen C) A Brobdingnagian woman D) A Houyhnhnm mare
A) A telescope B) A pair of spectacles C) A pocket microscope D) A magnifying glass
A) Jonathan Swift B) Felicity A. Nussbaum C) Deborah Needleman Armintor D) An unnamed scholar
A) The first story B) The fourth story C) The third story D) The second story
A) Nauseous B) Disgusting C) Monstrous D) Colossal
A) Throwing-up B) Laughing C) Crying D) Sleeping |
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