Which prose works is not a creation of Dr Jonathan Swift?
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Tom Jones
(c) An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
(d) A Tale of a Tub
Question’s Answer: Tom Jones
In Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Lilliput was threatened with an invasion from
(a) The island of Blefuscu
(b) Brobdingnag
(c) Japan
(d) Mildendo
“Nothing is great or little, otherwise than by comparison” is a statement taken from which of the following?
(a) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(b) Voyage to Lilliput
(c) Voyage to Laputa
(d) Voyage to Houyhnhnms
Question’s Answer: Voyage to Brobdingnag
Which prose works is a creation of Dr Jonathan Swift?
(a) Robinson Crusoe
(b) A Modest Proposal
(c) Utopia
(d) The Pilgrim’s Progress
Question’s Answer: A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift belongs to which of the following?
(a) Elizabethan age
(b) Age of Chaucer
(c) Age of Pope
(d) Modern age
Question’s Answer: Age of Pope
In Which category would you put Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Epic
(b) Fairy Tale
(c) Tragedy
(d) Satire
Question’s Answer: Satire
Which voyages was not undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Voyage to Lilliput
(b) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(c) Voyage to the Land Houyhnhnms
(d) Voyage to Congo
What was the name given to Gulliver in his “A Voyage to Brobdingnag”?
(a) Bolgolam
(b) Grildrig
(c) Mildendo
(d) Blefuscu
Question’s Answer: Grildrig
In Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, there is a reference to two parties in Liliput which are antagonistic to each other.
These two parties are
(a) The blacks and the whites
(b) Tory and Whig
(c) The democrats and the
(d) Tracmecksan and Republicans Slamecksan
In Gulliver’s Travels for the Man Mountain the Liliputian equivalents is
(a) Quinbus Flestrin
(b) Skyris Bolgolam
(c) Limtoc Balonuff
(d) Gulliver
Who was the character in Gulliver’s Travels who brought about an impeachment against Gulliver in Lilliput?
(a) Bolgolam
(b) Blefuscu
(c) Mildendo
(d) Flestrin
In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver sets out on how many voyages?
(a) Six voyages
(b) Five voyages
(c) Three voyages
(d) Four voyages
Question’s Answer: Four voyages
Which statements is correct?
(a) Dr Jonathan Swift has vehemently criticized William Temple
(b) Dr Jonathan Swift sides with his patron, William Temple and defends the ancients and condemns the moderns
(c) Dr Jonathan Swift defends the moderns and condemns the ancients
(d) None of these
Dr Jonathan Swift sides with his patron, William Temple and defends the ancients and condemns the moderns
who is the commander of the ancients in Dr Jonathan Swift’s “The Battle of the Books”?
(a) Dryden
(b) William Temple
(c) Hobbes
(d) Milton
Question’s Answer: William Temple
According to_____”, I heartily hate and detest that animal called man”.
(a) Orwell
(b) Pope
(c) Eliot
(d) Dr Jonathan Swift
Question’s Answer: Dr Jonathan Swift
Which voyages was undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(b) Voyage to Congo
(c) Voyage to the Malayan islands
(d) voyage to Denmark
Which is an article of impeachment against Gulliver in Lilliput?
(a) He was planning to run away from Lilliput
(b) He was clandestinely in love with the queen
(c) He had discharged urine within the precincts of the royal palace
(d) He had conspired to kill the king
Question’s Answer: He had discharged urine within the precincts of the royal palace
Voyage to Lilliput is followed by which voyage in Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Voyage to Laputa
(b) Voyage to Congo
(c) Voyage to Houyhnhnms
(d) Voyage to Brobdingnag
Question’s Answer: Voyage to Brobdingnag
The following line is taken from: ‘Whoever has an ambition to be heard in a crowd, must press, and squeeze and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains”
(a) A Modest Proposal
(b) The Battle of the Books
(c) A Tale of a Tub
(d) Gulliver’s Travels
Question’s Answer: A Tale of a Tub
Lagado is the capital city in Gulliver’s
(a) Voyage to Liiliput
(b) Voyage to Laputa
(c) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(d) Voyage to Houyhnhnms
Question’s Answer: Voyage to Laputa
Yahoos appear in Which voyages of Gulliver?
(a) Voyage to Houyhnhnms
(b) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(c) Voyage to Laputa
(d) Voyage to Lilliput
Question’s Answer: Voyage to Houyhnhnms
Which statements can be considered as correct in the context of Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Houyhnhnms is the name of a living thing
(b) Houyhnhnms is the name of a group of islands
(c) Houyhnhnms is the name of river
(d) Houyhnhnms is the name of a mountain
Question’s Answer: Houyhnhnms is the name of a living thing
Which statements can be considered as correct in the context of Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) uyhnhnms and Yahoos were enemies of each other
(b) Yahoos were the master and Houyhnhnms their servants
(c) Houyhnhnms and Yahoos were friends
(d) HoHouyhnhnms were the masters and Yahoos their servants
Question’s Answer: Houyhnhnms were the masters and Yahoos their servants
Which statements can be considered as correct in the context of Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Houyhnhnms were like human beings
(b) Yahoos were like horses
(c) Gulliver was Houyhnhnms taken for a Houyhnhnms
(d) Yahoos were like human beings
Question’s Answer: Yahoos were like human beings
Lorbrulgrud is a metropolis in Gulliver’s
(a) A Voyage to Brobdingnag
(b) A Voyage to Lilliput
(c) A Voyage to Laputa
(d) A Voyage to Houyhnhnms
Question’s Answer: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Glumdalclitch is the name of a girl who looked after Gulliver in his
(a) Voyage of Lilliput
(b) Voyage of Houyhnhnms
(c) Voyage of Laputa
(d) Voyage of Brobdingnag
Question’s Answer: Voyage of Brobdingnag
Which books by Dr Jonathan Swift contains the tale of three sons
Peter, Martin and Jack?
(a) The Battle of the Books
(b) Gulliver’s Travels
(c) A Proposal
(d) A Tale of a Tub
Question’s Answer: A Tale of a Tub
In which of the voyages of Gulliver, Dr Jonathan Swift’s misanthropy appears the most poignant?
(a) Voyage to the Houyhnhnms
(b) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(c) Voyage to Laputa
(d) Voyage to Lilliput
Question’s Answer: Voyage to the Houyhnhnms
Which works of Dr Jonathan Swift is a satire on the famous controversy regarding the relative
merits of the ancients and the moderns?
(a) A Modest Proposal
(b) Polite Conversation
(c) Gulliver’s Travels
(d) The Battle of the Books
Question’s Answer: The Battle of the Books
Which was a patron of Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift?
(a) William Wolton
(b) James I
(c) Queen Anne
(d) William Temple
Question’s Answer: William Temple
Which works of Dr Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory?
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) A Tale of a Tub
(c) Polite Conversation
(d) Journal to Stella
Question’s Answer: A Tale of a Tub
Dr. Jonathan Swift Books names
| A Tale of a Tub | 1704 |
| Gulliver’s Travels | 1726 |
| A Modest Proposal | 1729 |
| The Battle of the Books | 1704 |
| A Journal to Stella | 1766 (posthumous) |
Dr. Jonathan Swift Basic info
| Full Name | Jonathan Swift |
| Birth Date | November 30, 1667 |
| Birthplace | Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Writer, Satirist, Essayist |
| Literary Period | Augustan Age |
| Notable Works | – “Gulliver’s Travels” |
| – “A Modest Proposal” | |
| – “A Tale of a Tub” | |
| – “The Battle of the Books” | |
| Literary Genres | – Novel |
| – Satire | |
| – Essay | |
| – Poetry | |
| Key Themes | – Satire |
| – Critique of Society and Politics | |
| – Human Nature | |
| – Irony | |
| Significant Events | – Ordained as an Anglican priest (1694) |
| – Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (1713) | |
| – Political pamphleteering | |
| – Friendship with Alexander Pope and John Gay | |
| Death Date | October 19, 1745 |
| Death Place | Dublin, Ireland |
MCQs & Summary of Some Famous Poems by Jonathan Swift
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