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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) Lilliput
C) Japan
D) Laputa
  • 3. What is the flying island that Gulliver visits?
A) Brobdingnag
B) Lilliput
C) Laputa
D) Gulliver's Isle
  • 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 I
B) Part IV
C) Part III
D) Part II
  • 6. What do the Yahoos resemble?
A) Monkeys
B) Pigs
C) Human beings
D) Cats
  • 7. Which character is known for their rigid adherence to rules in Lilliput?
A) The philosopher
B) The emperor
C) Gulliver
D) The general
  • 8. What type of creatures inhabit the land of Houyhnbnms?
A) Humans
B) Dogs
C) Birds
D) Horses
  • 9. Who is the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Samuel Richardson
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) Teacher
C) Surgeon
D) Merchant
  • 12. Who remarked that 'Gulliver's Travels' is read by everyone from the cabinet council to the nursery?
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Gay
C) Samuel Johnson
D) William Thackeray
  • 13. How was 'Gulliver's Travels' originally classified by Swift?
A) As a romance novel
B) As a travelogue
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) Being giants
C) Practicing advanced mathematics
D) Living peacefully with humans
  • 15. In which land does Lemuel Gulliver find himself among giants?
A) Lilliput
B) Houyhnhnm
C) Brobdingnag
D) Laputa
  • 16. What type of beings does Gulliver encounter in Laputa?
A) Impractical intellectuals disconnected from reality.
B) Tiny people
C) Savage human-like creatures
D) Peaceful horses
  • 17. Who are the savage human-like creatures found alongside rational beings in Houyhnhnm?
A) Yahoos.
B) Lilliputians
C) Laputans
D) Brobdingnagians
  • 18. What was Swift's stated intention for writing 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) To promote scientific discovery
B) To vex the world rather than divert it.
C) To document real travels
D) To entertain children
  • 19. How did William Thackeray describe 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) As humorous
B) As romantic
C) As enlightening
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 only studied by historians
C) It is considered outdated
D) It is largely forgotten
  • 21. What is Swift's position among Irish authors in terms of publication?
A) He is least known
B) He is mostly studied by historians
C) He is the most widely read and translated.
D) He is only popular in Ireland
  • 22. What was a likely reason Swift had another writer copy his manuscript?
A) To avoid legal issues due to its political satire.
B) To translate it into other languages
C) To improve the writing style
D) To shorten the novel
  • 23. What language is referred to as 'Liliputian' in the novel?
A) A made-up language.
B) Latin
C) Hebrew
D) Greek
  • 24. What does Gulliver do to aid the Lilliputians against Blefuscu?
A) Provides them with weapons
B) Steals their naval fleet
C) Trains them in warfare tactics
D) Negotiates a peace treaty
  • 25. What does Gulliver carry with him when he leaves Lilliput?
A) Gold and jewels
B) Weapons for defense
C) Some Lilliputian animals
D) Maps and charts
  • 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) By throwing rocks down at them.
B) With a powerful army.
C) Through diplomatic negotiations.
D) Using spies and informants.
  • 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 desert him willingly.
B) They are captured by pirates.
C) They become loyal companions.
D) They commit mutiny against him.
  • 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) 12s. 3d.
B) 5s.
C) 10s.
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) 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) London
C) Laputa
D) Brobdingnag
  • 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) Mary Shelley
C) Jane Austen
D) Daniel Defoe
  • 37. What does Gulliver find in each of his travels?
A) A treasure
B) An enemy
C) A friend
D) A new language
  • 38. Who returns Gulliver to England at the end of the book?
A) The king of Brobdingnag
B) A Laputan scientist
C) Captain Robinson
D) The Portuguese captain, Don Pedro
  • 39. What does Gulliver frequently use to describe magnified images in Brobdingnag?
A) Words of admiration and respect.
B) Reflective and philosophical terms.
C) Neutral descriptions without emotion.
D) The sensory word 'nauseous'.
  • 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) Perfect civility
B) Unwavering reason
C) Inherent goodness
D) Bleak fallenness
  • 42. Which British statesman is Flimnap likely an allusion to?
A) William Pitt the Elder
B) Robert Harley
C) Sir Robert Walpole
D) Henry Pelham
  • 43. What does the Academy of Lagado in Part III satirize?
A) Colonial administrations
B) The British Parliament
C) The Royal Society
D) London universities
  • 44. Which financial scandal is associated with the term 'projectors' in Part III?
A) The Great Depression
B) The South Sea Bubble
C) The Mississippi Company collapse
D) The Tulip Mania
  • 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) Slavery
B) Tyranny
C) Colonialism
D) Despotism
  • 47. Who claimed that deciphering the Lilliputian language was a waste of time?
A) James Beattie
B) Irving Rothman
C) Isaac Asimov
D) Viscount Bolingbroke
  • 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) Viscount Bolingbroke
B) James Beattie
C) Isaac Asimov
D) William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 50. What does the term 'Brobdingnagian' mean according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
A) Rude and violent
B) Very large or gigantic
C) Intelligent and cunning
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) Frigyes Karinthy
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Abbé Pierre Desfontaines
  • 53. In Robert Heinlein's 'Starman Jones', what type of beings dominate humanoids?
A) Intelligent 'horses'
B) Giant humans
C) Small people with golf balls for heads
D) Underwater women
  • 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) 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) Lilliputtians
B) Brobdingnagians
C) Yahoos
D) Endians
  • 57. Who composed the 'Gulliver Suite' for two violins?
A) Georg Philipp Telemann
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 58. What is the title of the 1965 Japanese animated film featuring Gulliver?
A) The Adventures of Gulliver: Space Edition
B) Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
C) Gulliver in Outer Space
D) Gulliver's Lunar Adventure
  • 59. Which film starring Richard Harris was released in 1977?
A) Gulliver's Travels, a British-Belgian film
B) The Adventures of Gulliver: The Movie
C) Gulliver and the Giants
D) Gulliver's New Journey
  • 60. Which 1996 animated film was produced by Golden Films?
A) The Adventures of Gulliver: The Animation
B) Gulliver's Animated Journey
C) Gulliver in Cartoon Land
D) Gulliver's Travels, a 1996 animated film
  • 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 Travels, a 1996 American TV miniseries
D) Gulliver's New World
  • 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) 1999
C) 2012
D) 1948
  • 64. Who starred in the 2012 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Brian Gulliver
B) Matthew Broughton
C) Arthur Darvill
D) Neil Pearson
  • 65. Which edition of 'Gulliver's Travels' is edited by Robert DeMaria Jr.?
A) Penguin, 2008
B) W.W. Norton, 2009
C) Oxford University Press, 2005
D) W.W. Norton, 2001
  • 66. What is the basis for the text of 'Gulliver's Travels' in The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift?
A) 2008 Penguin edition
B) 1726 edition
C) Faulkner's 1735 edition
D) 2012 BBC Radio adaptation
  • 67. Who edited the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift as of 2005?
A) Robert DeMaria Jr.
B) Herbert Davis et al.
C) Ian Higgins
D) Claude Rawson
  • 68. Which radio adaptation of 'Gulliver's Travels' was part of the Radio Tales series?
A) 1948
B) Brian Gulliver's Travels
C) 2012
D) 1999
  • 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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