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Gulliver’s Travels
based on the book by
Jonathan Swift
Written by Mary B. Collins and Barbara M. Linde, MA Ed.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - Gulliver’s Travels
Introduction
4
Unit Objectives
6
Reading Assignment Sheet
7
Unit Outline
8
Study Questions (Short Answer)
11
Quiz/Study Questions (Multiple Choice)
27
Pre-Reading Vocabulary Worksheets
53
Lesson One (Introductory Lesson)
75
Nonfiction Assignment Sheet
84
Oral Reading Evaluation Form
85
Writing Assignment 1
79
Writing Assignment 2
89
Writing Assignment 3
97
Writing Evaluation Form
90
Vocabulary Review Activities
100
Extra Writing Assignments/Discussion ?s
80
Unit Review Activities
99
Unit Tests
107
Unit Resource Materials
143
Vocabulary Resource Materials
159
SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Gulliver's Travels
Book One - I-IV
1. Who is the narrator, and what does he do for work?
2. How did Gulliver get to Lilliput?
3. Briefly describe the Lilliputians physical appearance.
4. What physical characteristic differentiates the Emperor of Lilliput from his subjects?
5. What kind of living accommodations did the Emperor provide for Gulliver?
6. The Emperor delivered six Lilliputians who had "attacked" Gulliver to him for justice. What
did Gulliver do with them?
7. When the Lilliputians try to decide what to do with Gulliver what two means of death do
they consider before deciding to let him live?
8. For what purpose do the Lilliputians learn rope dancing and "leaping and creeping"?
9. Identify Skyresh Bolgolam.
10. What were Gulliver's nine conditions of freedom?
11. What are the two political factions in Lilliput?
12. About what are the Lilliputians and Blefuscuians fighting?
Book One - V - VIII
1. How did Gulliver help Lilliput against the Blefuscuians?
2. The Emperor wanted Gulliver to do more to help him finally crush the Blefuscuians so he
could be emperor of all the lands. What was Gulliver's response?
3. Briefly describe the Lilliputian educational system.
4. Identify Flimnap.
5. What crime did the Lilliputians consider to be greater than theft?
6. How were citizens who obeyed the laws rewarded?
7. What were the Articles of Impeachment against Gulliver?
8. What means of death for Gulliver did the Treasurer and Admiral offer as suggestions?
9. How did the Council decide to punish Gulliver for his crimes?
10. How did Gulliver escape?
11. Why did Gulliver leave Blefuscu?
12. How did Gulliver leave Blefuscu and return to England?
13. In what ways did Gulliver profit financially from his adventure to Lilliput?
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ANSWER KEY: STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Gulliver's Travels
Book One - I-IV
1. Who is the narrator, and what does he do for work?
The narrator is Mr. Lemur Gulliver, and he is the ship's doctor.
2. How did Gulliver get to Lilliput?
He was aboard the Antelope in the South-Sea when a storm caused the ship to wreck (and
subsequently the life boat to overturn). He swam and found land, which he later found was
Lilliput.
3. Briefly describe the Lilliputians physical appearance.
They were very small - only about 6" in height, and everything in Lilliput was scaled
proportionally to them.
4. What physical characteristic differentiates the Emperor of Lilliput from his subjects?
"He is taller by almost a breadth of [Gulliver's] nail than any of his court" . . .
5. What kind of living accommodations did the Emperor provide for Gulliver?
The Emperor had Gulliver taken to the largest ancient temple in the kingdom. He was chained
by the leg, but was able to walk in the courtyard and lie down in the building.
6. The Emperor delivered six Lilliputians who had "attacked" Gulliver to him for justice. What did
Gulliver do with them?
He picked them up and put them in his pocket. One by one he scared them by acting as if he
would eat them, then he set them free.
7. When the Lilliputians try to decide what to do with Gulliver what two means of death do they
consider before deciding to let him live?
They consider starvation or shooting him with poisoned arrows.
8. For what purpose do the Lilliputians learn rope dancing and "leaping and creeping"?
By their performances of these arts, they attempt to impress the Emperor, to gain political
offices.
9. Identify Skyresh Bolgolam.
He is an Admiral of the Realm, advisor to the Emperor, and he disliked Gulliver because he
was jealous of him since Gulliver's great capturing of Bolgolam's ships.
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10. What were Gulliver's nine conditions of freedom?
1. Gulliver won't leave without permission.
2. He won't go into the city without permission and two hours warning to the citizens.
3. Walk only on high road - not in meadows or fields.
4. Won't step on anyone or anything and won't pick up people without their permission.
5. Will carry messenger for Emperor once a month if necessary.
6. Will be ally of Lilliput against Blefuscu.
7. Will help with construction and physical labor.
8. Will survey circumference of Lilliput.
9. For obedience to above, Gulliver will be fed as much food as 1728 Lilliputians would
eat.
11. What are the two political factions in Lilliput?
The two political factions in Lilliput are the High Heels and the Low Heels. There are more
High heels in the country, but the Low Heels are currently in power.
12. About what are the Lilliputians and Blefuscuians fighting?
Blefuscuians break their eggs on the big end, as was the religious custom until the present
Lilliputian Emperor's grandfather decreed eggs should be broken on the small end. Big-Endians
(who fled to Blefuscu) and Little-Endians (Lilliputians) have been fighting over which end of the
egg to break first.
Book One - V - VIII
1. How did Gulliver help Lilliput against the Blefuscuians?
He made cables with hooks, crossed the water, hooked the cables to the Blefuscuian ships and
pulled them back to Lilliput.
2. The Emperor wanted Gulliver to do more to help him finally crush the Blefuscuians so he could be
emperor of all the lands. What was Gulliver's response?
Gulliver "plainly protested, that [he] would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave
people into slavery."
3. Briefly describe the Lilliputian educational system.
Children of nobility and means boarded at public nurseries where they were raised and
educated with minimum family contact. There were four kinds of nurseries; those being for
noble boys, noble girls, ordinary boys and ordinary girls. Children of commons laborers were
not educated.
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