Gulliver's Travels - Quiz
A) Merchant B) Pirate C) Captain D) Surgeon
A) He needs money B) He is bored with his employment C) He is exiled from England D) He is looking for his family
A) They join the Houyhnhnms B) They mutiny and become pirates C) They return him safely to England D) They abandon him on an island with gold
A) In a hot air balloon B) Cast adrift in a landing boat C) Washing ashore in a large chest D) Swimming after a shipwreck
A) Deformed savage humanoid creatures B) A race of merchants C) Intelligent, civilized horses D) Wise and generous human sailors
A) Portuguese captains B) Civilized horses C) Mutinous crew members D) Deformed savage humanoid creatures
A) He views them as equals B) He considers them wise and courteous 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 horse's household D) A Yahoo chieftain's household
A) He tries to conquer them B) He comes to both admire and emulate them C) He ignores their customs D) He finds them savage and cruel
A) As superior and civilized beings B) As victims of the Houyhnhnms C) As gentle creatures like the horses 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) Swim back to the land that he came from C) Teach the Yahoos how to speak D) Join the Yahoos in the wild
A) His Houyhnhnm Master B) Benjamin Motte C) Captain Pedro de Mendez D) Alexander Pope
A) The Scriblerus Club B) His mutinous crew C) An English merchantman D) A Portuguese ship
A) Rescued against his will B) Rescued eagerly and gratefully C) Rescued by a tribe of Yahoos D) Rescued by a horse
A) He ignores him completely as a beast B) He is disgusted to see that he is a wise, courteous, and generous person C) He immediately attacks him as a dangerous Yahoo D) He begs him to take him back to the horses
A) He returns to his work as a surgeon B) He writes a book with Alexander Pope C) He becomes a recluse D) He becomes the captain of a new ship
A) Spending several hours a day speaking with the horses in his stables B) Writing poetry for the Scriblerus Club C) Traveling the world as a merchant D) Working closely with his family and wife
A) It is uncertain B) 1710 C) 1720 D) 1726
A) Lilliput B) Dublin C) London D) Loughry Manor
A) Satirising popular literary genres B) Promoting Whig politics C) Publishing Irish pamphlets D) Breeding intelligent horses
A) Pope B) Motte C) Curll D) Swift
A) 1720 B) 1726 C) 1723 D) 1713
A) Part III only B) Part IV only C) Parts III and IV D) Parts I and II
A) 1720 B) 1725 C) 1723 D) 1724
A) 1720 B) 1723 C) 1725 D) 1724
A) March 1726 B) October 1726 C) December 1715 D) August 1725
A) Pro-Whig political pamphlet B) Transparently anti-Whig satire C) Strictly neutral historical account 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 print multiple editions in Ireland simultaneously D) To give a copy to Captain Pedro de Mendez
A) September 1710 B) March 1726 C) August 1725 D) October 1726
A) Benjamin Motte B) Edmund Curll C) Martinus Scriblerus D) Alexander Pope
A) Five B) Three C) Two D) Ten
A) To speed production and avoid piracy B) To hide the book from Queen Anne C) To lower the cost of paper D) To print different parts in different languages
A) The rebellion of Lindalino B) Descriptions of court contests in Lilliput C) Verses written by Alexander Pope D) Some material in defence of Queen Anne
A) March 1726 B) 28 October 1726 C) 5 December 1715 D) August 1725
A) One volume B) Three volumes C) Four volumes D) Two volumes
A) 2s. 6d. B) 5s. 0d. C) 10s. 6d. D) 8s. 6d.
A) Under Swift's real name B) Under Martinus Scriblerus C) Under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver D) Anonymously
A) Benjamin Motte B) Edmund Curll C) Alexander Pope D) Captain Pedro de Mendez
A) Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput B) Tale of a Tub C) Drapier's Letters D) Gulliver's Travels
A) He bought all copies to prevent piracy B) He wrote follow-up parodies himself C) He disavowed them in Faulkner's edition of 1735 D) He praised them in his correspondence
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) 3 June 1706 B) 16 April 1710 C) 5 August 1706 D) 20 June 1702
A) Brobdingnag B) Laputa C) Adventure D) Lagado
A) About 50 feet B) About 100 feet C) About 10 yards D) About 72 feet
A) 5 yards B) 72 feet C) 20 yards D) 10 yards
A) The queen of the realm B) The Emperor of Japan C) The court dwarf D) Glumdalclitch
A) Gulliver escapes to the palace B) The farmer runs out of money C) Glumdalclitch asks him to D) The constant display makes Gulliver sick
A) Travelling box B) Flying island C) Grand Academy D) Magician's dwelling
A) A giant eagle B) A monkey C) A pirate D) A jealous court dwarf
A) A court dwarf B) A sailor C) A monkey D) A giant eagle
A) A low-ranking courtier B) A magician C) A jealous court dwarf D) The King of Brobdingnag
A) Glubbdubdrib B) Balnibarbi C) Luggnagg D) Langden
A) Brobdingnag B) England C) India D) Japan
A) Lagado B) Maldonada C) Laputa D) Luggnagg
A) Northwest B) Southwest C) Southeast D) Northeast
A) A farmer's home B) The Emperor's palace C) A courtier's residence D) A magician's dwelling
A) Aristotle B) Julius Caesar C) René Descartes D) Pierre Gassendi
A) Ancients versus moderns B) Youth versus old age C) Science versus practical results D) Europe versus Brobdingnag
A) Seventy-two B) Seventy C) Eighty D) Ninety
A) Discussing European politics B) Exhibiting for money C) Trampling upon the crucifix D) Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers
A) 5 August 1706 B) 3 June 1706 C) 16 April 1710 D) 20 June 1702
A) 4 May 1699 B) 13 April 1699 C) 4 May 1702 D) 13 April 1702
A) Less than 6 inches B) Less than 15 inches C) More than 6 feet D) Exactly 15 feet
A) Less than 6 cm B) Exactly 6 cm C) Less than 15 cm D) More than 50 cm
A) Washed ashore after a shipwreck B) Arriving on a passing ship C) Sailing an abandoned boat D) Flying in a hot air balloon
A) A deserted island B) Blefuscu C) Back home directly D) A larger continent
A) Boxes of tiny eggs B) The naval fleet of Blefuscu C) A miniature crown D) Lilliputian animals
A) Jonathan Swift B) John Gay C) Lemuel Gulliver D) William Thackeray
A) Gothic romance B) Travellers' tales C) Historical biography D) Heroic epic
A) Brobdingnag B) Lilliput C) Laputa D) The land of the Houyhnhnms
A) French B) Latin C) Greek D) Hebrew
A) Ignored by the public B) Mixed and controversial C) Overwhelmingly positive D) Overwhelmingly negative
A) Political neutrality B) Lack of creativity C) Excessive misanthropy D) Childish humor
A) Jonathan Swift B) John Gay C) Lemuel Gulliver D) William Thackeray
A) Brobdingnagian speech B) Laputan terminology C) Liliputian language D) Yahoo dialect
A) George Faulkner B) Daniel Defoe C) Charles Ford D) Warren Montag
A) Daniel Defoe B) Thomas Hobbes C) Charles Ford D) George Faulkner
A) London B) Laputa C) Dublin D) Brobdingnag
A) 1740 B) 1899 C) 1726 D) 1735
A) The Unthinkable Swift B) Drapier's Letters C) Robinson Crusoe D) The Battle of the Books
A) Science brings progress to society B) The individual precedes society C) Governments are always ideal D) Society precedes the individual
A) Thomas Hobbes B) Allan Bloom C) Charles Ford D) Daniel Defoe
A) Motte B) Don Pedro C) Sympson D) Robinson
A) Charles Ford B) Warren Montag C) George Faulkner D) Allan Bloom
A) Ten years B) Seven years C) Eight years D) Four years
A) Leather pouches B) Glass jars with open tops C) Wooden barrels D) Phials hermetically sealed
A) Five B) Four C) Three D) Two
A) The Lindalino rebels B) The Houyhnhnms C) The Lilliputians D) The Yahoos
A) Complex, simple, scientific, natural B) Scientific, natural, complex, simple C) Natural, scientific, simple, complex D) Simple, complex, natural, scientific
A) Better, worse, better, worse B) Worse, better, worse, better C) Better, better, worse, worse D) Worse, worse, better, better
A) Don Pedro B) Motte C) Robinson D) Sympson
A) Racism B) Misogyny C) Plagiarism D) Treason
A) A Brobdingnagian woman B) A Houyhnhnm mare C) A Lilliputian queen D) An English lady
A) A telescope B) A pair of spectacles C) A magnifying glass D) A pocket microscope
A) An unnamed scholar B) Felicity A. Nussbaum C) Deborah Needleman Armintor D) Jonathan Swift
A) The first story B) The second story C) The third story D) The fourth story
A) Disgusting B) Colossal C) Monstrous D) Nauseous
A) Laughing B) Crying C) Sleeping D) Throwing-up |
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