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