Swift/Gulliver's Travels Background

Jonathan Swift is famous for his ______.

• novels

• poems

• satires

• plays

Lemuel Gulliver’s four voyages can be seen as a satirical exploration of the ______ condition.

• animal

• human

• alien

• divine

The name “Gulliver” may suggest that he is "_______".

• wise

• brave

• gullible

• strong

The first voyage is to ______ - Little people (6" tall compared to Gulliver's height of 6').

• Narnia

• Lilliput

• Laputa

• Houyhnhnms

• Brobdingnag

The diminutive citizens represent human single-mindedness and ______ ambitions.

• noble

• petty

• grand

• generous

The second voyage is ______ - Giants (Gulliver is little).

• Houyhnhnms

• Laputa

• Lilliput

• Blefuscu

• Brobdingnag

When Gulliver is with the giants, he is humbled by his own ______.

• strength

• helplessness

• intelligence

• courage

The enlightened monarch in the land of the giants concludes that most of the country’s inhabitants must be "the most pernicious race of little odious ______ that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth.”

• heroes

• vermin

• giants

• angels

Throughout Gulliver’s Travels, that which is admirable is held up to expose ______ in the reader’s world.

• beauty

• corruption

• honesty

• kindness

Gulliver’s Travels is a parody of the genre of "_______ narrative."

• travel

• adventure

• mystery

• romance