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Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
1 Match a description from A with the name of a place or person in the story from A B
A
1
A flying island.
The girl who looked after Gulliver during one of his adventures.
B
a Laputa
b Lilliput
c Struldbrug
d Glumdalclitch
e Brobdingnag
15 marks
2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? TF
a
In Brobdingnag, Gullivers master tried to make money by showing him to people at the
market.
d
After spending a year with horses in the country of the Houys, Gulliver was very happy to
Fill in the gaps using: notes, history, war, crawled, judges, conversations, neighbours,
intelligent, political, worst.
Gulliver had many ............... with the King of Brobdingnag, who was a very ............... person.
Gulliver explained the ............... system of Britain, and told him about the House of Lords and
House of Commons. He explained that there were ............... who decided punishments for
criminals. He talked about the army, and told the King about the ............... of Britain over the last
few hundred years. The King made ..............., because he thought Gulliver might tell him
something he could usefully copy in his own country. But when Gulliver had finished, the King
was not pleased with what he had heard. Why are you so often at ...............? he asked. Either
you enjoy fighting, or you have very difficult ...............! From what youve told me, I think that
your countrymen are the ............... little nation of insects that ever ............... upon the ground.
30 marks
4 Which words are missing? For each sentence, tick a, b or c.
1 Gulliver was a ... .
a
doctor
teacher
soldier
2 The argument between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians was about ... .
a
ships
shoes
eggs
4 Before Gulliver left Brobdingnag, he offered to tell the King how to ... .
a
build a ship
make gunpowder
find gold
a bird
the wind
a monkey
b___friendly c__horrible
30 marks
5 When he left Lilliput, what did Gulliver take with him to show his friends in England?
....................................................................................
10 marks
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Multiple-choice Test
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
Setting
Choose the best answer.
1 Gulliver starts the first journey he describes in _____.
a [ ] 1599
b [ ] 1699
c [ ] 1799
d [ ] 1899
b [ ] Ireland
c [ ] England
d [ ] America
c [ ] fat
d [ ] thin
c [ ] friendly with
d [ ] at war with
d [ ] wooden box
b [ ] Japan
c [ ] India
d [ ] Peru
c [ ] up a tree
d [ ] on to the roof
b [ ] an old bottle
c [ ] a wooden box
d [ ] a large bath
c [ ] in the sea
d [ ] inside a mountain
b [ ] In Houyhnhms
c [ ] On Luggnagg
d [ ] On Glubbdubdrib
20 marks
Character
Choose the best answer.
11 When Gulliver is younger, he leaves college and becomes a _____.
a [ ] doctor
b [ ] teacher
12 _____ is one of the most important officials who helps Gulliver at first.
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4
a [ ] Yahoo
b [ ] Struldbrug
c [ ] Flimnap
d [ ] Reldresal
b [ ] Man-Hill c [ ] Man-Giant
d [ ] Man-House
b [ ] kind girl
c [ ] cruel man
d [ ] cruel boy
b [ ] brother
c [ ] magician d [ ] dwarf
16 The King of Brobdingnag is very _____ when Gulliver offers him the secret of gunpowder.
a [ ] happy b [ ] surprised
c [ ] angry d [ ] quiet
b [ ] giants
c [ ] dwarves
d [ ] soldiers
b [ ] learn to read
c [ ] have children
d [ ] die
19 The Houys are _____ who are very sensible and gentle.
a [ ] sailors
b [ ] pirates
c [ ] horses
d [ ] dogs
b [ ] Yahoos
c [ ] Struldbrugs
d [ ] Lilliputians
20 marks
Dialogue
Who said or wrote this?
21 Im so glad theyve taken away my chains.
a [ ] Gulliver
b [ ] Reldresal
22 For six years weve had two political groups, the High-Heels and the Low-Heels.
a [ ] Gulliver
23 For your bravery, you will be one of my lords from now on.
a [ ] Gulliver
d [ ] Flimnap
24 Our neighbour has advised Father to show you to people, for money!
a [ ] Reldresal
d [ ] Glumdalclitch
25 As Im a stranger here I dont mind being shown to people like a strange, wild animal.
a [ ] Gulliver
b [ ] Reldresal
d [ ] Glumdalclitch
26 How amusing it is that an insect like this should talk of such important matters!
a [ ] the Queens dwarf
d [ ] Glumdalclitch
b [ ] Reldresal c [ ] Glumdalclitch
d [ ] Gulliver
28 Young man, nobody murdered me. I drank too much and died of a fever.
a [ ] one of the ghost servants
of Alexander the Great
b [ ] the ghost
c [ ] Gulliver
b [ ] Gullivers wife
20 marks
Vocabulary
Choose the best answer.
31 very small
a [ ] wide
b [ ] adequate
c [ ] deep
d [ ] tiny
c [ ] neigh
d [ ] laugh
c [ ] put up
d [ ] put on
b [ ] argument
c [ ] revolution
d [ ] system
b [ ] professor
c [ ] magician
b [ ] narrow
d [ ] manager
c [ ] average
d [ ] round
b [ ] creature
c [ ] object
d [ ] thing
b [ ] fall c [ ] jump
d [ ] crawl
b [ ] key
c [ ] magnet
d [ ] ruler
a [ ] astonishment
b [ ] worry
c [ ] fear
d [ ] promise
20 marks
Plot
Choose the best answer.
41 When Gulliver wakes up in Lilliput he cant _____.
a [ ] hear
b [ ] see
c [ ] speak
d [ ] move
42 There are two different groups of people in Lilliput who argue about _____.
a [ ] which colour shoes to wear
c [ ] which language to speak
b [ ] pushing them
c [ ] throwing them
d [ ] kicking them
b [ ] terrible
c [ ] clever
d [ ] polite
b [ ] art
c [ ] maths
d [ ] history
c [ ] from England
d [ ] from Japan
50 When Gulliver gets home, he feels _____ because everyone looks like Yahoos.
a [ ] happy b [ ] excited
c [ ] sad
d [ ] good
Gullivers Travels
1 1 e
2 b
3 c
4 a
5 d
2 a T
b F
c T
d T
e F
3 conversations, intelligent, political, judges, history, notes, war, neighbours, worst, crawled
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2 c
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4 b
5 a
6 c
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