Gulliver’s Travels Quizzes

Gulliver's Travels Quiz 1

By Rebecca Cantor · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed August 21, 2007

1 How tall are the Lilliputians?

Human size

About a foot tall

Giant

5 to 6 inches
2 How tall are the Brobdingnags?

Giant

About a foot tall

5 to 6 inches

Human size
3 What washes up on the shore of Lilliput?

Gulliver's hat

Gulliver's boat

Gulliver's gunpowder pouch

Gulliver's glasses
4 How does Gulliver put out the fire in the Empress's bed chamber?

He doesn't

He urinates on it

With a hose

With thimbles of water
5 What is Gulliver's role on his first voyage?

Passenger

Surgeon

Captain

Sailors
6 Which of the following is not one of the reasons Gulliver is convicted of treason in Lilliput?

He encouraged the Blefuscudians in their peace proposals

He refused to continue fighting for Lilliput

He urinated on the Empress's bed chamber

He ate too much, causing a famine
7 Who is Gulliver's enemy in Lilliput?

Flimnap

Himnaptude

Redresal

Frank
8 How does Gulliver arrive on Lilliput?

He swims ashore after a shipwreck

He is dropped off there by a bird

He and his crew land there

He can't remember
9 How do the Lilliputians decide who will take a high position in the court?

A tight-rope jumping contest

Foot races

Elections are held

Thumb wrestling
10 What is Gulliver's sentence after he is found guilty of treason in Lilliput?

Solitary confinement

Execution

Tickling

Having his eyes put out
11 Who are the enemies of the Lilliputians?

The Blefuscudians

The Brobdingnags

Human beings

The Laputians
12 Why did the Lilliputians divide?

They wore different sized heels on their shoes

They couldn't decide who should be emperor

They cut their eggs at different ends

They couldn't decide what to do with Gulliver
13 When Gulliver awakens on the shore of Lilliput, what is his condition?

Lying on his back tied up by hundreds of ropes

Having a terrible headache from having too much drink

Healthy but without any memory

Well-rested and comfortable
14 What did Flimnap say about Gulliver in order to slander him?

That Gulliver hid the queen's brush

That Gulliver was a god

That Gulliver was conspiring with the enemy

That Gulliver slept with his wife
15 How did Gulliver scare the people of Lilliput?

He clapped his hands loudly

He stomped his foot

He sneezed

He fired his pistol
16 How does Gulliver get home from Blefuscu?

He swims

He is picked up by a large bird

He doesn't

He finds a boat floating off shore and repairs it
17 How does Gulliver learn to speak the Lilliputian language?

Six scholars are employed to teach him

He reads their books

A young girl teaches him

He reads their newspapers
18 Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?

Alexander Pope

Lemuel Gulliver

Jonathan Swift

Henry Fielding
19 Why does Gulliver flee to Blefuscu?

The Lilliputians are going to execute him

The Lilliputians are going to put his eyes out

The Lilliputians won't grant him his freedom

The Lilliputians are going to starve him to death
20 How does Gulliver gain his liberty in Lilliput?

With his gentleness and good behavior

He breaks free

He tricks the Lilliputians

He never gains his liberty
21 Which of the Lilliputians is the nicest to Gulliver?

Flimnap

The Emperor

The Empress

Redresal
22 How do the Lilliputians hurt Gulliver when they first find him?

They pull his hair

They hit him with stones

They shoot tiny arrows at him

They let their animals bite him
23 What is the punishment for the Lilliputians who bother Gulliver?

They are given into Gulliver's hands

They are put in prison

They are forced to walk the tight-rope

Death
24 How does Gulliver's time in Lilliput end?

He stays until he dies at the age of 83

He is convicted of treason

He is carried away by a whale

He is given a grand boat filled with supplies
25 Who raises the Lilliputian children?

Gulliver raises them while he's there

Animals

The government

Their parents

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