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