A) Pirate B) Merchant C) Surgeon D) Captain
A) He is bored with his employment B) He is looking for his family C) He is exiled from England D) He needs money
A) They join the Houyhnhnms B) They return him safely to England C) They mutiny and become pirates D) They abandon him on an island with gold
A) Washing ashore in a large chest B) In a hot air balloon C) Cast adrift in a landing boat D) Swimming after a shipwreck
A) Wise and generous human sailors B) A race of merchants C) Intelligent, civilized horses D) Deformed savage humanoid creatures
A) Mutinous crew members B) Civilized horses C) Portuguese captains D) Deformed savage humanoid creatures
A) He conceives a violent antipathy B) He views them as equals C) He admires and emulates them D) He considers them wise and courteous
A) Benjamin Motte's household B) A Yahoo chieftain's household C) A horse's household D) Captain Pedro de Mendez's household
A) He comes to both admire and emulate them B) He tries to conquer them C) He finds them savage and cruel D) He ignores their customs
A) As superior and civilized beings B) As victims of the Houyhnhnms C) As merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason D) As gentle creatures like the horses
A) He is a fully civilized horse B) He is a danger to their civilization C) He must be kept as a pet forever D) He should become their new leader
A) Join the Yahoos in the wild B) Teach the Yahoos how to speak C) Stay in the stables forever D) Swim back to the land that he came from
A) His Houyhnhnm Master B) Benjamin Motte C) Captain Pedro de Mendez D) Alexander Pope
A) The Scriblerus Club B) An English merchantman C) His mutinous crew D) A Portuguese ship
A) Rescued by a horse B) Rescued by a tribe of Yahoos C) Rescued eagerly and gratefully D) Rescued against his will
A) He begs him to take him back to the horses B) He immediately attacks him as a dangerous Yahoo C) He ignores him completely as a beast D) He is disgusted to see that he is a wise, courteous, and generous person
A) He becomes a recluse B) He becomes the captain of a new ship C) He returns to his work as a surgeon D) He writes a book with Alexander Pope
A) Writing poetry for the Scriblerus Club B) Traveling the world as a merchant C) Working closely with his family and wife D) Spending several hours a day speaking with the horses in his stables
A) 1720 B) 1710 C) It is uncertain D) 1726
A) London B) Dublin C) Lilliput D) Loughry Manor
A) Publishing Irish pamphlets B) Satirising popular literary genres C) Breeding intelligent horses D) Promoting Whig politics
A) Motte B) Swift C) Curll D) Pope
A) 1713 B) 1726 C) 1723 D) 1720
A) Parts III and IV B) Part III only C) Parts I and II D) Part IV only
A) 1724 B) 1725 C) 1723 D) 1720
A) 1723 B) 1724 C) 1725 D) 1720
A) March 1726 B) October 1726 C) December 1715 D) August 1725
A) Transparently anti-Whig satire B) Strictly neutral historical account C) Pro-Whig political pamphlet D) Pro-Queen Anne defense
A) To give a copy to Captain Pedro de Mendez B) So his writing could not be used as evidence if a prosecution arose C) To print multiple editions in Ireland simultaneously D) To send copies to all members of the Scriblerus Club
A) October 1726 B) August 1725 C) September 1710 D) March 1726
A) Benjamin Motte B) Edmund Curll C) Alexander Pope D) Martinus Scriblerus
A) Five B) Three C) Ten D) Two
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) Verses written by Alexander Pope B) Descriptions of court contests in Lilliput C) The rebellion of Lindalino D) Some material in defence of Queen Anne
A) August 1725 B) March 1726 C) 5 December 1715 D) 28 October 1726
A) Two volumes B) Three volumes C) One volume D) Four volumes
A) 2s. 6d. B) 8s. 6d. C) 10s. 6d. D) 5s. 0d.
A) Under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver B) Under Martinus Scriblerus C) Under Swift's real name D) Anonymously
A) Captain Pedro de Mendez B) Benjamin Motte C) Alexander Pope D) Edmund Curll
A) Tale of a Tub B) Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput C) Drapier's Letters D) Gulliver's Travels
A) He wrote follow-up parodies himself B) He bought all copies to prevent piracy C) He disavowed them in Faulkner's edition of 1735 D) He praised them in his correspondence
A) Benjamin Motte B) Alexander Pope C) Edmund Curll D) Martinus Scriblerus
A) To the Drapier's Letters B) To the second edition of the book C) To Faulkner's edition of 1735 only D) To the first edition published by Motte
A) 20 June 1702 B) 16 April 1710 C) 5 August 1706 D) 3 June 1706
A) Laputa B) Adventure C) Lagado D) Brobdingnag
A) About 50 feet B) About 10 yards C) About 72 feet D) About 100 feet
A) 10 yards B) 20 yards C) 5 yards D) 72 feet
A) The queen of the realm B) The court dwarf C) Glumdalclitch D) The Emperor of Japan
A) Glumdalclitch asks him to B) The farmer runs out of money C) The constant display makes Gulliver sick D) Gulliver escapes to the palace
A) Grand Academy B) Magician's dwelling C) Flying island D) Travelling box
A) A monkey B) A pirate C) A giant eagle D) A jealous court dwarf
A) A giant eagle B) A monkey C) A court dwarf D) A sailor
A) A magician B) A low-ranking courtier C) The King of Brobdingnag D) A jealous court dwarf
A) Luggnagg B) Balnibarbi C) Glubbdubdrib D) Langden
A) Japan B) Brobdingnag C) England D) India
A) Maldonada B) Laputa C) Lagado D) Luggnagg
A) Southeast B) Northwest C) Northeast D) Southwest
A) A courtier's residence B) A magician's dwelling C) A farmer's home D) The Emperor's palace
A) Julius Caesar B) Pierre Gassendi C) René Descartes D) Aristotle
A) Youth versus old age B) Europe versus Brobdingnag C) Science versus practical results D) Ancients versus moderns
A) Seventy B) Ninety C) Eighty D) Seventy-two
A) Trampling upon the crucifix B) Discussing European politics C) Exhibiting for money D) Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers
A) 5 August 1706 B) 3 June 1706 C) 16 April 1710 D) 20 June 1702
A) 13 April 1699 B) 4 May 1702 C) 13 April 1702 D) 4 May 1699
A) More than 6 feet B) Less than 15 inches C) Exactly 15 feet D) Less than 6 inches
A) Less than 15 cm B) More than 50 cm C) Less than 6 cm D) Exactly 6 cm
A) Flying in a hot air balloon B) Sailing an abandoned boat C) Arriving on a passing ship D) Washed ashore after a shipwreck
A) Blefuscu B) Back home directly C) A larger continent D) A deserted island
A) Boxes of tiny eggs B) A miniature crown C) Lilliputian animals D) The naval fleet of Blefuscu
A) William Thackeray B) Lemuel Gulliver C) Jonathan Swift D) John Gay
A) Historical biography B) Travellers' tales C) Heroic epic D) Gothic romance
A) Lilliput B) Brobdingnag C) The land of the Houyhnhnms D) Laputa
A) Hebrew B) Greek C) French D) Latin
A) Overwhelmingly negative B) Overwhelmingly positive C) Ignored by the public D) Mixed and controversial
A) Political neutrality B) Lack of creativity C) Childish humor D) Excessive misanthropy
A) William Thackeray B) Jonathan Swift C) Lemuel Gulliver D) John Gay
A) Laputan terminology B) Brobdingnagian speech C) Yahoo dialect D) Liliputian language
A) George Faulkner B) Warren Montag C) Charles Ford D) Daniel Defoe
A) Charles Ford B) George Faulkner C) Thomas Hobbes D) Daniel Defoe
A) Brobdingnag B) Laputa C) London D) Dublin
A) 1726 B) 1899 C) 1735 D) 1740
A) The Battle of the Books B) The Unthinkable Swift C) Robinson Crusoe D) Drapier's Letters
A) Society precedes the individual B) Governments are always ideal C) Science brings progress to society D) The individual precedes society
A) Allan Bloom B) Thomas Hobbes C) Charles Ford D) Daniel Defoe
A) Robinson B) Sympson C) Don Pedro D) Motte
A) Allan Bloom B) George Faulkner C) Warren Montag D) Charles Ford
A) Seven years B) Eight years C) Ten years D) Four years
A) Glass jars with open tops B) Wooden barrels C) Phials hermetically sealed D) Leather pouches
A) Four B) Two C) Five D) Three
A) The Houyhnhnms B) The Lindalino rebels C) The Lilliputians D) The Yahoos
A) Scientific, natural, complex, simple B) Complex, simple, scientific, natural C) Natural, scientific, simple, complex D) Simple, complex, natural, scientific
A) Better, better, worse, worse B) Worse, worse, better, better C) Worse, better, worse, better D) Better, worse, better, worse
A) Sympson B) Motte C) Don Pedro D) Robinson
A) Racism B) Plagiarism C) Treason D) Misogyny
A) A Houyhnhnm mare B) A Lilliputian queen C) An English lady D) A Brobdingnagian woman
A) A pocket microscope B) A magnifying glass C) A pair of spectacles D) A telescope
A) Felicity A. Nussbaum B) An unnamed scholar C) Deborah Needleman Armintor D) Jonathan Swift
A) The fourth story B) The second story C) The third story D) The first story
A) Disgusting B) Monstrous C) Nauseous D) Colossal
A) Sleeping B) Crying C) Laughing D) Throwing-up |