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Gulliver's
Travels
Adventure 3
44.
What is unusual
about Laputa?
45.
How does Gulliver
get transported to Laputa?
46.
How big is the
floating island? How many people
live on it?
47.
What nationality
do these people remind you of? Why
might Swift include these people in a book?
48.
What seems to
characterize the people of Laputa?
49.
Who is Prince
Munodi?
50.
What does Dr.
Bates do with Mary’s letter?
51.
What is a
“flapper”? What is its use?
52.
What is the Rajah
predicting will happen?
53.
How is the island
controlled (in scientific terms)?
54.
What is the
problem with the way the island navigates?
55.
What is Tom
Gulliver drawing?
56.
Why does Gulliver
want to “reverse the lodestone”?
57.
Where does
Gulliver fall?
58.
How does
Munodi’s mother view intellectualism?
59.
Why does Gulliver
want to find the “Academy”? What
type of place is it?
60.
What might the
“Academy” represent in real-life societies?
At this point, Gulliver travels around
the
land
of
Luggnagg
.
These places represent societies intrigued with the Period of
Enlightenment: Love of intellectual and scientific attitudes and practices.
61.
Why is the old man
mashing cucumbers?
62.
Who does Gulliver
meet in the Room of Answers? Why is
this appropriate?
63.
Back in
England
, where is Gulliver placed?
64.
Gulliver ends up being a prisoner
at the palace of the Glubbubdribs. It’s
like a scene out of the movie Groundhog
Day. Why?
65.
When Gulliver is drugged and
sleeping at night, what does the king do to him?
66.
Who does Gulliver end up summoning
through a mirror? Why?
67.
In the land of the Struldbrugs, a
lady speaks to Gulliver from a golden eye. What
is unusual about the Struldbrugs?
68.
What is wrong with the people near
the waters of immortality?
69.
Back in
England
, how is Dr. Bates caught in a lie?
70.
Does Gulliver drink from the waters
of immortality? Why or why not?
71.
While Mary is trying to get
Gulliver off his addiction to laudanum, what ship experience does he tell her
about?
72.
How does he leave the ship?
Adventure 4: The Houyhnhms (pronounced
“ how WIN ems”) and the Yahoos
73.
Gulliver, back in
England
, is taken to a court hearing.
What does he call the people there?
74.
Describe the real Yahoos.
What do you think they represent?
75.
Describe the Houyhnhms.
What do you think they represent?
76.
In the world of Adventure 4, the
Houyhnhms act like __________________ and the Yahoos act like
______________________.
77.
Who is “Mistress”?
78.
What do the Yahoos dig on the
beaches for?
79.
What does Gulliver find by digging
on the beaches? What does he do with
his findings?
80.
What does the Houyhnhm Council
decide about Gulliver?
81.
How does he plan to leave the
Houyhnhms?
82.
Why does Gulliver throw his food
overboard?
83.
Who rescues him?
84.
How does Mary answer when Dr. Bates
asks her if Mary believes Gulliver’s stories?
85.
Why does Tom appear at the court
hearing?
86.
What
does Tom’s evidence prove?
87.
Lem, Mary, and Tom return home.
How does life continue for the Gullivers?
88.
Why does Lem like to visit the
stables at his home?
89.
Does he find peace?
What can Gulliver still not tolerate by
the end of the story?
Gulliver's portrait as it appeared in the book's first edition.
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/index.html
Glossary of terms you'll meet for
the first time in Gulliver's Travels here
Timeline of Swift's life
and times here
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