MCQs – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver stayed in Laputa:
(a) For six months
(b) For five months
(c) For two months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: For two months
The two principal interests of the people of Laputa were:
(a) English and Chemistry
(b) Geography and Physics
(c) Music and Mathematics
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Music and Mathematics
In Lilliput, fraud was regarded as a greater crime than:
(a) Murder
(b) Treason
(c) Theft
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Theft
Swift’s first love affair was with a woman named:
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Marry
(c) Miss Jane Waring
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Miss Jane Waring
What did king of Laputa give Gulliver as a present?
(a) Three hundred pounds
(b) Two hundred pounds
(c) Four hundred pounds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two hundred pounds
Gulliver took leave of the court and the king on:
(a) 16th February
(b) 15th February
(c) 17th February
Question’s Answer: 16th February
After leaving Laputa, Gulliver arrived in:
(a) Lagado
(b) Japan
(c) Glubbdubdrib
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lagado
The high heels and low heels refer to:
(a) The political factions in England
(b) The religious factions in England
(c) (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The political factions in England
Blefuscu stands for:
(a) England
(b) Germany
(c) Italy
(d) France
Question’s Answer: France
Swift addressed Jane Waring as:
(a) Varina
(b) Liz
(c) Honey
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Varina
Children in Lilliput were not brought up or educated by their Parents, but:
(a) By their relatives
(b) Were the responsibilities of the state
(c) By their Grandparents
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Were the responsibilities of the state
The houses in Lilliput consisted of:
(a) Four to six storeys
(b) Three to five storeys
(c) Six to seven storeys
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three to five storeys
Swift’s uncle pass away in:
(a) 1677
(b) 1689
(c) 1678
(d) 1690
Question’s Answer: 1678
Who was Sir William Temple?
(a) A Factory Owner
(b) An Essayist and Statesman
(c) A Poet
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Essayist and Statesman
Swift was buried in:
(a) Italy
(b) England
(c) Cathedral of St. Patrick’s,Dublin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cathedral of St. Patrick’s,Dublin
“Gulliver’s Travels” was translated into:
(a) 1725
(b) 1728
(c) 1727
(d) 1726
Question’s Answer: 1726
Who was Esther Johnson?
(a) Swift’s Cous
(b) Swift’s Sister
(c) Temple’s illegitimate Daughter
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Temple’s illegitimate Daughter
Part IV of “Gulliver’s Travels” was finished by:
(a) 1727
(b) 1725
(c) 1726
(d) 1724
Question’s Answer: 1724
In “Gulliver’s Travels,” Gulliver is a:
(a) Man
(b) Real Character
(c) Imaginary Character
(d) Boxer
Question’s Answer: Imaginary Character
“Gulliver’s Travels” had been divided into:
(a) Four parts
(b) Three parts
(c) Five parts
(d) Six parts
Question’s Answer: Four parts
The chief object to write “Gulliver’s Travels”, according to Swift was:
(a) To Satirize political activities
(b) To amuse people
(c) To vex the world rather than divert it
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To vex the world rather than divert it
Part I and Part II of “Gulliver’s Travels” were finished by the end of:
(a) 1724
(b) 1723
(c) 1721
(d) 1725
Question’s Answer: 1721
“Gulliver’s Travels” was written in:
(a) Two Languages
(b) Four Languages
(c) Three Languages
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three Languages
“Gulliver’s Travels” is a:
(a) Political Work
(b) Real Character
(c) Allegorical Work
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Allegorical Work
What name Swift gave to Esther Johnson?
(a) Stella
(b) Varina
(c) Honey
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Stella
In Gulliver’s Travels’, Gulliver is the third:
(a) Of the six sons
(b) of the five sons
(c) of the four sons
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: of the four sons
Swift had written “The Battle of the Books” in:
(a) 1700
(b) 1698
(c) 1699
(d) 1697
Question’s Answer: 1697
Swift was appointed as the Dean of St.Patrick’s Cathedral in:
(a) 1716
(b) 1714
(c) 1715
(d) 1713
Question’s Answer: 1713
Swift became quite insane:
(a) By 1743
(b) By 1742
(c) By 1744
(d) By 1745
Question’s Answer: By 1742
Swift pass away in:
(a) 1748
(b) 1746
(c) 1747
(d) 1745
Question’s Answer: 1745
Gulliver’s ambition was to:
(a) Travel a lot
(b) Become an artist
(c) Become rich
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Travel a lot
How much time Gulliver was given by Houyhnhnms to make arrangement to leave?
(a) Four months
(b) Three months
(c) Two months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two months
Gulliver married a girl named:
(a) Katherine
(b) Mary
(c) Liza
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mary
Gulliver took up the job of a:
(a) Doctor on a ship
(b) Cook on a ship
(c) Surgeon on a ship
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Surgeon on a ship
One of the grand assemblies of Houyhnhnms was held:
(a) Five months before Gulliver’s departure
(b) Four months before Gulliver’s departure
(c) About three months before Gulliver’s departure
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: About three months before Gulliver’s departure
Houyhnhnms generally lived to the age of:
(a) Eighty
(b) Seventy-eight
(c) Seventy-five
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seventy-five
Gulliver left the land of Houyhnhnms in:
(a) 1714
(b) 1717
(c) 1716
(d) 1715
Question’s Answer: 1715
Gulliver built for himself a kind of:
(a) Carriage
(b) Canoe
(c) Bus
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Canoe
Gulliver landed at an English port on the:
(a) 7th December 1715
(b) 6th December 1715
(c) 5th December 1715
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 5th December 1715
On arriving home, when Gulliver’s wife kissed him he fainted for:
(a) Half an hour
(b) Two hours
(c) Almost an hour
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two hours
Jonathan Swift was a:
(a) Dramatist
(b) Novelist
(c) Poet
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novelist
Gulliver was taken to metropolis by:
(a) A car
(b) A huge carriage
(c) A bus
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A huge carriage
Emperor of the “Lilliput” was:
(a) Short statured than other
(b) Long statured than other
(c) of the same size as other people
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: of the same size as other people
Which following is not the work of Jonathan Swift?
(a) A Tale of a Tub
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Gulliver’s Travels
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Jonathan Swift was brought up by:
(a) An aunt
(b) His mother
(c) An uncle
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An uncle
Jonathan Swift was born in:
(a) 1686
(b) 1668
(c) 1685
(d) 1667
Question’s Answer: 1667
He was sent to Trinity College at the age of:
(a) Ten
(b) Sixteen
(c) Fifteen
(d) Fourteen
Question’s Answer: Fourteen
The people of Lilliput were:
(a) Five inches in height
(b) Seven inches in height
(c) Six inches in height
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six inches in height
How many Lilliputians raised Gulliver to the level of carriage?
(a) Five hundred
(b) Nine hundred
(c) Eight hundred
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Nine hundred
How much time it took Lilliputians to raise. Gulliver to the level of carriage?
(a) Five Hours
(b) Three Hours
(c) Six Hours
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three Hours
Gulliver was given the name ‘Quinbus Flestrin’ by officials which Meant:
(a) Brave Man
(b) Big Man
(c) Man Mountain
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Man Mountain
The Lilliputians used to write:
(a) Aslant from one corner of the paper to the other
(b) From the left to right
(c) From the right to the left
Question’s Answer: Aslant from one corner of the paper to the other
When Gulliver woke up, he found himself in a strange land called:
(a) Venice
(b) Lilliput
(c) Africa
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lilliput
On arriving the metropolis, Gulliver felt the urgent need to:
(a) Eat
(b) Urinate
(c) Drink Water
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Urinate
The Emperor came to meet Gulliver:
(a) In a carriage
(b) On a horse’s back
(c) On a truck
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: On a horse’s back
The second voyage of Gulliver was to:
(a) The Land of Lilliput
(b) Laputa
(c) Brobdingnag
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Brobdingnag
The country of Brobdingnag was the country of:
(a) Pygmies
(b) Huge men
(c) Normal-sized people
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Huge men
With his saved money Gulliver bought:
(a) Three horses
(b) Two horses
(c) Four horses
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two horses
History of Gulliver’s travels extends over a period of:
(a) Sixteen and a half years
(b) Seventeen and a half year
(c) Fifteen and a half years
Question’s Answer: Fifteen and a half years
Gulliver was able to communicate in the language of Lilliputians within:
(a) Two Weeks
(b) About three weeks
(c) Four Weeks
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: About three weeks
On arriving Brobdingnag, Gulliver was treated kindly by:
(a) An Engineer’s family
(b) A doctor’s family
(c) A farmer’s family
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A farmer’s family
The farmer’s daughter was:
(a) Forty feet high
(b) Fifty feet high
(c) Thirty feet high
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirty feet high
Gulliver started writing an account of his travels:
(a) Five years after his return
(b) Three years after his return
(c) Two years after his return
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five years after his return
Which vice was intolerable for Gulliver?
(a) Vice of gambling
(b) Vice of prostitution
(c) Vice of pride
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Vice of pride
Farmer took Gulliver to metropolis on:
(a) 19th August, 1703
(b) 18 August, 1703
(c) 17 August, 1703
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 17 August, 1703
Gulliver was shown to the public in:
(a) Seventeen large town on the way
(b) Nineteen large towns on the way
(c) Eighteen large towns on the way
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eighteen large towns on the way
Houyhnhnms were completely free from the evil of:
(a) Pride
(b) Fraud
(c) Cruelty Cruelty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pride
On arriving England, Gulliver decided to spend his time:
(a) In reading
(b) In research
(c) In his garden at Redriff
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: In his garden at Redriff
Gulliver called farmer’s daughter his “Glumdalolitch” which in English means:
(a) Little nurse
(b) Well-wisher
(c) Mother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Little nurse
A visitor made a suggestion to farmer to take Gulliver to the next town:
(a) To entertain him
(b) To show him the town
(c) To display him to the people
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To display him to the people
In Part I of “Gulliver’s Travels” Flimnap is Sir Robert Walpole wo was:
(a) The Prime Minister of England
(b) The Prime Minister of France
(c) The Prince of England
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Prime Minister of England
The Phrase in “Gulliver’s Travels” one of the King’s cushion’ refers to one of King George’s:
(a) Mistresses
(b) Cousins
(c) Sisters
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mistresses
How many beds were put together by Lilliputians to make a single bed for Gulliver?
(a) Six Hundred beds
(b) Five Hundred beds
(c) Two Hundred beds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six Hundred beds
The activity of Ropedancer was practised by:
(a) Acrobats
(b) Common People
(c) Candidates of high offices
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Candidates of high offices
The Queen paid the farmer:
(a) Two thousand pieces of gold to buy Gulliver
(b) Fifty pieces of gold to buy Gulliver
(c) A thousand pieces of gold to buy Gulliver
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A thousand pieces of gold to buy Gulliver
The town of Lilliput was capable of holding:
(a) Two hundred thousand people
(b) Three hundred thousand people
(c) Five hundred thousand people
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two hundred thousand people
How many scholars the king sent for in order to consult them about Gulliver?
(a) Five scholars
(b) Four scholars
(c) Three scholars
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three scholars
In Lagado, in the academy of projectors Gulliver met a man who had been engaged upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers:
(a) For the last eight years
(b) For the last twelve years
(c) For the last ten years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: For the last eight years
The wasps in Brobdingnag were as large as the:
(a) Eagles
(b) Partridges in England
(c) Pigs
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Partridges in England
Brobdingnag contained:
(a) Fifty cities
(b) Fifty-one cities
(c) Sixty cities
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifty-one cities
The Royal Kitchen was about:
(a) One hundred feet high
(b) Two hundred feet high
(c) Six hundred feet high
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: hundred feet hig
The army of Brobdingnag’s King consisted of:
(a) One hundred and seventy-nine thousand soldiers and thirty-two thousand horses
(b) One hundred and seventy-six thousand soldiers and thirty-two thousand horses
(c) One hundred and eighty-six thousand soldiers and thirty two thousand horses
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One hundred and seventy-six thousand soldiers and thirty-two thousand horses
In Luggnagg, Gulliver stayed for:
(a) Five months
(b) Four months
(c) Three months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three months
Gulliver left Luggnagg on the 6th May:
(a) 1709
(b) 1708
(c) 1707
(d) 1710
Question’s Answer: 1709
To whom, Gulliver desired to see from the dead men of the past?
(a) Socrates
(b) Plato
(c) Alexander the Great
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Alexander the Great
How many days, Gulliver conversed with all the ancient personalities of past?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Seven
Question’s Answer: Five
On arriving Luggnagg, Gulliver had to:
(a) Bow his head
(b) Stand straight
(c) Lick the dust before the foot-stool of the king
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lick the dust before the foot-stool of the king
The word “Glubbdubdrib” means:
(a) Silent island
(b) Flying island
(c) The island of magicians
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The island of magicians
At that time, the only Europeans who could enter Japan were:
(a) American
(b) English
(c) Dutch
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Dutch
The fourth voyage of Gulliver was to the country of:
(a) Lilliput
(b) Laputa
(c) Houyhnhnms
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Houyhnhnms
On arriving Houyhnhnms, Gulliver first saw:
(a) Horses
(b) Certain animals
(c) Birds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Certain animals
“Yahoos” were:
(a) Bosses
(b) The master of their own
(c) Subservient to the horses
(a) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Subservient to the horses
When did Gulliver leave the Brobdingnag?
(a) In the beginning of third year of his stay
(b) After two years
(c) After one year
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: In the beginning of third year of his stay
Gulliver’s third voyage was to the city of:
(a) Lilliput
(b) Laputa
(c) Brobdingnag
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Laputa
What should be the basis of all governments according to king of Brobdingnag?
(a) Use of power
(b) Cruelty
(c) Common sense, reason and justice
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Common sense, reason and justice
Laputa was an:
(a) Island
(b) Moving Island
(c) Flying Island
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Flying Island
The people of Laputa were followed by:
(a) Dogs
(b) Flappers
(c) Cats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Flappers
Gulliver was able to understand the language of Houyhnhnms fully in:
(a) Four months
(b) Three months
(c) Five months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three months
Gulliver had to wait:
(a) For three hours to meet the king
(b) For two hours to meet the king
(c) For an hour to meet the king
Question’s Answer: For an hour to meet the king
In Laputa, at dinner time mutton had been cut into:
(a) Rhomboid
(b) An equilateral triangle
(c) Cycloid
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An equilateral triangle
Gulliver was able to understand much of the language of Houyhnhnms:
(a) In about ten weeks
(b) In five weeks
(c) In twenty weeks
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: In twenty weeks
The “Yahoos” were:
(a) Reasonable
(b) Brutal
(c) Good
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Brutal
Chapter 6 of Part IV, is a:
(a) Praise of the English life of the time
(b) Commentary on the England life of the time
(c) Bitter Satire on the English life of the time
Question’s Answer: Bitter Satire on the English life of the time
The two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms were:
(a) Sympathy and friendship
(b) Piety and helping the poor
(c) Friendship and benevolence
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Friendship and benevolence
The “Yahoos” were fond of collecting:
(a) Coins
(b) Certain shinning stones
(c) Wealth
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Certain shinning stones
When Gulliver was taken to the king,he was busy.
(a) In reading
(b) In eating
(c) In solving a problem
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: In solving a problem