Dr Jonathan Swift MCQs

Dr. Jonathan swift Basic info
Dr. Jonathan swift Basic info

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

Dr. Jonathan swift boos names
Dr. Jonathan swift boos names

“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

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