Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Gulliver's Travels? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. When "[t]he [Brobdingnagian] king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines," what "engines" are being referred to?
Steam engines
Guns
Printing presses
Jet engines
Q. Why do the political projectors in Balnibarbi decide not to tax the good qualities of honor, justice, wisdom, and learning?
Those traits are too common.
Those traits are too rare.
The traits are only possessed by poor people.
Those traits are only possessed by the super rich.
Q. Which Brobdingnagian especially likes to pick on Gulliver because of his size?
The queen
The queen's dwarf
The king
The king's infant son
Q. Why is the rumor that Gulliver is sleeping with Flimnap's wife so ridiculous?
She is 80 years old.
She hasn't been born yet.
She's 6 inches tall.
She's 6 meters tall.
Q. Who is Gulliver looking at when he meditates on the fact that "undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison" (2.1.5)?
The Lilliputians
The Brobdingnagians
The Laputians
The Grand Canyon