Gulliver's Travels

Which of the following adjectives best explains Gulliver’s attitude toward the Lilliputians in paragraph 4 of Chapter I?

• enamored

• terrified

• unfazed

• amused

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Which of the following answers best explains why the Lilliputians fed Gulliver and transported him to the capital city?

• They realized that they would be safer with him as an ally than as an enemy.

• They had a bigger army waiting in the capital city and would have a better chance at being able to defeat him.

• They wanted to dress his wounds before they began his interrogation.

• They believed he was a god and brought him to their city to be worshipped.

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What does the following passage mainly reveal about the Lilliputians (paragraph 11)?

For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty’s dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.

• They want to align themselves with Gulliver because they think that they will need him to combat other humans who may come to their land.

• They do not trust Gulliver and believe that he may be plotting against them.

• They refuse to believe that there are other “giants” like Gulliver because it would be overwhelming to think of what danger more could pose.

• They think that he would have an easier time and be better received by the Blefuscudians.

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What is most likely the author’s intent in his description of the conflict between the Lilliputians and Blefuscudians in Chapter IV?

• He is comparing them to colonists and their rebellion against Great Britain.

• He is connecting them to the French Catholics and British Protestants.

• He is using them to retell the histories of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

• He was not connecting them to any historical groups or events.

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Which of these inferences about Gulliver and the Lilliputians is best supported by the excerpt from Chapter IV?

• Gulliver is eager to bring peace to the Lilliputians.

• The Lilliputians are trying to get rid of Gulliver since they are running out of food.

• Gulliver is becoming sympathetic to the Blefuscudian cause.

• The Lilliputians freed Gulliver in hopes he would fight for them.

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