BRIT LIT SURVEY I: QUIZ 9

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For each question, use the drop-down menu to select the most appropriate response. Please read carefully, as each question can ask for very different sorts of information. Once you have chosen the best answer for each question, click on "Submit for Grading" to proceed.

1. The proportion of things in Brobdingnag in relation to those in Gilliver's (our) world is...
   (click here) 100:1 25:1 10:1 12:1

2. Gulliver claims that as a consequence of his "sincere endeavor" to place the virtues and beauties of his homeland in "the most advantageous light," the King of Brobdingnag determines that the English...
   (click here) Must be an honorable and pious people Must be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth Must expend extraordinary care in their education in arts and arms Seem to exhibit great ability and love of country

3. The capital city of Blefuscu is named...
   (click here) Blefuscu Flestrin Galbet Nardac

4. The fish in the sea surrounding Brobdingnag are proportionately as large as the the animals of that kingdom.
   (click here) True False

5. When the Houyhnhnms determine that Gulliver must either live among the Yahoos or leave their land, he builds a canoe-like boat covered with...
   (click here) Birchbark Horsehide Yahoo skins Rabbit skins

6. To improve the efficiency of communication, the language professors of Lagado proposed to do away with words and...
   (click here) Just carry around all the things they might need to refer to Just draw pictures of the things they might need to refer to Create an alternative based on music Create an alternative based on mathematics

7. When Gulliver first encounters the Houyhnhnms, their rational behavior inclines him to think...
   (click here) Horses might be smarter than people He must be hallucinating He must be dreaming They must be magicians

8. Gulliver describes the language of the Houyhnhnms to be most like...
   (click here) German French Chinese Portuguese

9. Which of the following does his diet among the Houyhnhnms cause Gulliver to decide he can well live without?
   (click here) Milk Salt Oats Whiskey

10. Of all the Yahoos he encountered in his travels, Gulliver regards which of the following as being the "least corrupted"?
    (click here) The Lilliputians The Laputans The Brobdingnagians The Bilnibarbians