from Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift

Test Practice

Identify Author’s Purpose and Point of View

With your group, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. Why does Swift create the Lilliputians as physically small people?
a. He wants them to be intimidated by Gulliver.
b. He models them on pygmies, popular in the travel literature of his time.
c. He wants to highlight that they are small-minded.
d. He contrasts their big hearts with their small bodies.


How does information you gather as you read help you eliminate incorrect answers?

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