Gulliver's Travels: Study Help: Quiz

1: Gulliver’s Travels is essentially a satire on

a. ruler’s abuses of their subjects

b. the problems of dysfunctional families

c. the dangers of class systems

d. the nature of man

2: In the utopia called the Country of the Houyhnhnms, the horses represent

a. dominance by force

b. the perfection of nature

c. the entanglements of power

d. man’s inability to be rational

3: Which of the following traits is Gulliver’s greatest fault?

a. Pride

b. Dishonesty

c. Loyalty

d. Gullibility

4: What are the experiments called that the academies of Balnibarbi perform?

a. Grants

b. Studies

c. Projects

d. Dissertations

5: Gulliver’s visit to Lilliput allows Swift to satirize what sort of rulers?

a. Rulers with small views and narrow interests

b. Rulers with big ideas and grandiose plans

c. Rulers with preoccupations with specific topics

d. Rulers with abundant resources but no methodology

6: Who are the only immoral and malicious people in Brobdingnag?

a. Greedy farmers

b. Women and the elderly

c. Members of the royal court

d. The deformed and children

7: Who does Gulliver describe as “the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced”?

a. The Houyhnhnms

b. The Lilliputians

c. The Struldbruggs

d. The Yahoos

8: Who are the Lilliputians’ enemies?

a. The Blefuscudians

b. The Yahoos

c. The Houyhnhnms

d. The Dwarves

9: Who says the following: “When I thought of my family, my friends, my countrymen, or human race in general I considered them as they really were, Yahoos in shape and disposition…”

a. Gulliver

b. The Sorrel Nag

c. The King of Laputa

d. Skyresh Bolgolam

10: Who says the following: “I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”

a. The Emperor of Blefescu

b. The King of Brobdingnag

c. The Grey Horse

d. The Emperor of Japan

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