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