Question. What is different about the Struldbrugs of Luggnagg?
(a) They are immortal
(b) They are giants
(c) They are blind
(d) They have are extremely wild
Answer
A
Question. The flying island that Gulliver visited was
(a) Balninarbi
(b) Laputa
(c) Brobdingnag
(d) Lilliput
Answer
B
Question. The ‘greatest danger’ that Gulliver faced in Brobdingnag was from a –
(a) dwarf
(b) giant wasp
(c) gardener’s dog
(d) monkey
Answer
A
Question. The name Glubbdubdrib signifies the Island of the
(a) modern philosophy
(b) astronomy
(c) Sorcerers or Magicians
(d) Academy
Answer
A
Question. Why did Gulliver summon the shades of Rene Descartes and Pierre Gassendi to talk to Aristotle?
(a) Descartes and Gassendi were Swift’s friends.
(b) They were supporters of Aristotle’s theories
(c) They were philosophers who revised many of Aristotle’s theories.
(d) They were working together for a common cause.
Answer
C
Question. What countries does Swift satirize with Lilliput and Blefuscu?
(a) Japan and France
(b) England and France
(c) Great Britain and North America
(d) Ireland and France
Answer
A
Question. How tall are the Lilliputians?
(a) Five to Six inches
(b) Giant
(c) Human Size
(d) About a foot tall
Answer
A
Question. When Gulliver reaches the land of Brobdingnag he finds himself surrounded by a race of
(a) giants
(b) horse
(c) dwarfs
(d) superhumans
Answer
D
Question. The first fantasy island that Gulliver visits on his travel is the island of
(a) Brobdingnag
(b) Laputa
(c) Houyhnhms
(d) Lilliput
Answer
A
Question. What is Gulliver’s profession before he begins his voyage
(a) Lawyer
(b) Surgeon
(c) Merchant
(d) Dentist
Answer
D
Question. Which society is “endowed by nature with a general disposition to all Virtues”, in Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Brobdingnagians
(b) Houyhnhnms
(c) Laputans
(d) Yahoos
Answer
A
Question. How does Gulliver help the Lilliputians defeat Blefuscu?
(a) By stealing their ships
(b) By stomping on their ships
(c) By sinking their ships
(d) By shooting their ships
Answer
D
Question. The great invention that Gulliver offered as a gift to the king of Brobdingnag was
(a) Electricity
(b) Sewing machine
(c) Gun powder
(d) Telephone
Answer
B
Question. What is Gulliver’s role on his first voyage?
(a) Sailor
(b) Captain
(c) Surgeon
(d) Passenger
Answer
D
Question. What is the name of the captain who takes Gulliver on his ship after he was shot by New Hllanders?
(a) Captain Abraham Pannell
(b) Captain John Nicholas
(c) Captain William Robinson
(d) Captain Pedro de Mendez
Answer
B
Question. Before Gulliver takes to the seas, what was his profession?
(a) Journalist
(b) Surgeon
(c) Novelist
(d) Lawyer
Answer
D
Question. How does Gulliver get home from Blefuscu?
(a) He doesn’t
(b) He swims
(c) He is picked up by a large bird
(d) He finds a boat floating off shore and repairs it
Answer
A
Question. Which of the Lilliputians is the nicest to Gulliver?
(a) Redresal
(b) Flimnap
(c) The Emperor
(d) The Empress
Answer
C
Question. How does Gulliver put out the fire in the Empress’ bed chamber?
(a) With a hose
(b) With a few buckets of water
(c) He urinates on it
(d) Covers it with his clothes
Answer
C
Question. How do the Lilliputians decide who will take a high position in the court?
(a) elections
(b) the king decides
(c) wrestling
(d) tight rope jumping contest
Answer
D
Question. Who raises the Lilliputian children?
(a) Their parents
(b) The Government
(c) Gulliver raises them while he’s there
(d) Animals
Answer
C
Question. In his second voyage Gulliver landed on the Island of –
(a) Lilliput.
(b) Brobdingnag
(c) Houyhnhnms
(d) Laputa
Answer
B
Question. Gulliver did not surrender his ___________ to the Lilliputians.
(a) spectacles
(b) pistol
(c) watch
(d) sword
Answer
D
Question. Which of the human societies that he visits does Gulliver find most appealing?
(a) Brobdingnag
(b) Laputa
(c) Blefuscu
(d) Lagado
Answer
A
Question. Gulliver concludes his narrative by claiming that all the lands he visited belong by rights to
(a) England
(b) Portugal
(c) Lilliput
(d) Blefuscu
Answer
A
Question. The highest title of honour given to Gulliver by the emperor was a/ an
(a) Nardac
(b) Endians
(c) Swallow
(d) Antelope
Answer
D
Question. Luggnaggians are
(a) person of quality
(b) impolite and uncultured
(c) polite and generous people
(d) disagreeable people
Answer
A
Question. During his lifetime, what genre was Jonathan Swift most widely known for?
(a) Romance
(b) Historical Fiction
(c) Fantasy
(d) Satire
Answer
C
Question. How are the Yahoos described?
(a) Hairy, dirty and deformed
(b) Civilised and good-natured
(c) Half-human, half-animal
(d) None of the above
Answer
A
Fill in the blanks
Question. Laputa is an imaginary island which means ________ .
Answer
floating island
Question. Gulliver’s enemy in Lilliput is ______
Answer
Flimnap
Question. The name Glubbdubdrib signifies the Island of the _________
Answer
Sorcerors/ magicians
Question. ________ scholars are employed to teach Gulliver in order to let him learn how to speak the language of Lilliputians.
Answer
Six
Question. The Houyhnhnms had the physical shape in the form of the _____________.
Answer
Horses
Question. The great invention that Gulliver offered to the King of Brobdingnag was _____
Answer
Gun powder
Question. Gulliver landed to the Island of Laputa on his third voyage which means _____________.
Answer
Flying or floating island
Question. Gulliver learnt the language of the Houyhnhnms by imitating the _____ sounds expressed by the horse.
Answer
nasal
Question. Gulliver’s enemy in the royal court of Brobdingnag is ___________.
Answer
The Dwarf
Question. Laputa is a _____________.
Answer
Flying/floating island
Question. Gulliver did not surrender his ___________ to the Lilliputians.
Answer
Spectacles
Question. Gulliver’s first name is ______
Lamuel
Answer
Question. The animalistic creatures that serve the Houyhnhnms are the________
Answer
Yahoos
Question. The highest title of honour given to Gulliver by the emperor was a/ an ______
Answer
Nardac
Question. The ‘greatest danger’ that Gulliver faced in Brobdingnag was from a ______
Monkey
Answer
