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