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  • 1. 
    Where was Jonathan Swift born?

  • England
  • Ireland
  • Wales
  • Scotland

  • 2. 
    What was Jonathan Swift’s pseudonym?

  • Currer Bell
  • George Eliot
  • Jonathan Oldstyle
  • Isaac Bickerstaff

  • 3. 
    Where does the main character land after a shipwreck in Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels?

  • Lilliput
  • Blefuscu
  • Brobdingnag
  • Lagado

  • 4. 
    In Gulliver’s Travels, what do the Lilliputians who wear high-heeled shoes represent?

  • Whigs
  • Tories
  • Protestants
  • Catholics

  • 5. 
    In Gulliver’s Travels, what do the Lilliputians who wear low-heeled shoes represent?

  • Catholics
  • Whigs
  • Protestants
  • Tories

  • 6. 
    In Gulliver’s Travels, Lilliputians fill court positions by deciding who is best at which sport?

  • rope dancing
  • croquet
  • badminton
  • square dancing

  • 7. 
    In “A Modest Proposal,” what does Swift’s narrator propose could be used as food?

  • the elderly
  • young children
  • pets
  • horses

  • 8. 
    What year was Gulliver’s Travels published?

  • 1726
  • 1721
  • 1725
  • 1730

  • 9. 
    When did Jonathan Swift die?

  • 1730
  • 1745
  • 1750
  • 1726
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