Gulliver's Travels(A Voyage to Lilliput) Class 7th

 Q#1: What trade does Gulliver learn as an apprentice?

Ans#1: Gulliver studied to be a doctor as an apprentice. As he liked travelling so he decided to be a ship doctor.


Q#2: How is the Antelope wrecked?

Ans#2: On their way to East Indies, the Antelope was driven by a violent storm to the Northwest. The ship hit a rock in the sea and began to sink. 


Q#3: What happens to Gulliver's companions during and after the ship wreck? Can you find any lines that express how Gulliver feels about his fellow sailors? If so, write them down.

  Ans#3: When their ship began to sink, Gulliver managed to jump into one of the ship's lifeboats with some sailors. But suddenly the weather was getting hazy and the wind was so strong that the safety boat could not survive and with a big wave the boat turned over. Gulliver felt sad and he thought "they all were drowned" 


Q#4: How tall is the first Lilliputian that Gulliver sees? What is he carrying?

Ans#4: The Lilliputian was hardly six inches tall. He was carrying a tiny bow and arrow in his hands.


Q#5: To what does Gulliver compare the Lilliputian arrows?

Ans#5: Gulliver compared the Lilliputian arrows to a very small object but they were very sharp as well.


Q#6: The Lilliputian men searched Gulliver's pockets and compiled a report. A small excerpt of that report is included in the story. What is your opinion, might they have found in his other pocket? Complete the report in Gulliver's belongings.

Ans#6: The Lilliputian men found after searching Gulliver's pockets were: 

1.A piece of coarse cloth looking like a carpet for their majesty's room was actually a handkerchief

2. A huge silver chest with a cover of the same metal was actually his Sniff box 

3. In his right pocket they found thin substances folded one over another was his Journal book.


Q#7:  At one point, the author says that he was 'pushed forward by wind and tide'. What does this mean?

Ans#7: At the beginning of the story, Gulliver and his friends were struck by a violent storm. Their ship wrecked and he lost all his friends. At that point he was helpless in the vast sea, so he swam as directed by fortune and pushed forward by wind and tide'.


Q#8: At another point, he says that he 'felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs'. What does this mean? Explain in detail in the context of the story.

Ans#8: When Gulliver woke up he was tied with ropes and he saw very small creatures walking his body. He found that his arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground.

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