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My Worksheet Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 8, 9 & 10 Date: _______________ sunlight Luggnagg subjugation academy necromancer Balnibarbi Struldbrugs linguist satire air-headed distracted scientific Glubbdubdrib blood California' Gulliver, first espying the Raja's wife in ____________________ from the flying island of Laputa, joins her down below, once he is shaken lose, falling as he does to earth onto a feather bed. From the the estate of Munodi, the Raja's wife, Gulliver proceeds to the ______________ her husband set up in Lagado. There many 'great' minds work on ridiculous 'scientific' idiocies as a ____________ of Swift's against all the crazy ideas passed off as ____________________ in his own times. When the minds of those smarter than average focus on extracting ________________ from cucumbers, many practical concerns are clearly ignored. Gulliver in Lagado's academy 'speaks', because he is allowed to, with a ________________ who thinks he can replace speech with an extensive system of signs. The obvious lack of a need for this, because most people find speech more than adequate is totally lost on the ____________________ linguist. Meanwhile, outside the academy the ordinary people suffer while their leaders are so ____________________. Gulliver is seemingly saved from the ______________________, a group on the neighboring island of ________________, by the governor of Glubbdubdrib. He is a ______________________. Someone who seemingly raises the dead to question them about historical events. To do this the governor needs the fresh human __________ of someone like Gulliver. The Struldbrugs claim to have achieved immortal life, but the governor of ________________________ plans to keep Gulliver in constant ______________________ by drugging our hero. The home of Glubbdubdrib's governor is something like 'The Hotel ______________________ --- oh, no, you've never heard of the Eagles have! Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 9 & 10 Date: _______________ King Lagado Laputa problems Raja Malaysia fresh air talons Glumdalclitch East Indies giants Eaten them flying island breathless Laputan School of 3rd June 1706 I'm English terrible crime Lessons bird's wings countrymen mathematical Bristol Balnibarbi Mathematics 1. bserslahet b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14. uatalp L _ _ _ _ _ 2. luccathldmilg G _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15. tnalaup L _ _ _ _ _ _ 3. stlano t _ _ _ _ _ 16. ajar R _ _ _ 4. iswgb' ndisr b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17. knig K _ _ _ 5. fhi aserr f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18. aealmhimctta m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6. el'mgihnis I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19. sbreplom p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. nyunteorcm c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20. yllfigna ndis f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8. gntasi g _ _ _ _ _ 21. o oc slfho S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9. 3e76du 1 3 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22. thcaeasmitm M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ n0rj 10. ltoisrb B _ _ _ _ _ _ 23. ibribnalab B _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11. retriml t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24. aoadlg L _ _ _ _ _ ecebir 12. eteids nais E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25. an theemet E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13. ilasyama M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26. sesolsn L _ _ _ _ _ _ Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 8 Picture Match Date: _______________ A - The Lagado academy is described. Note how Gulliver's 1 logbook illustration • • reflects early 19th century factories, dark satanic mills. B - Gulliver espies the wife of Laputa's Raja below as the Raja arrives 2 to extract taxes. His • • taxation will further impoverish domains outside her estate. C - At Lagado's academy a linguist explains how carrying 3 items about can replace • • speech with communication based on pointing at objects. Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 D - Gulliver, while reversing Laputa's lodestone, is knocked off 4 • • the island, landing in the estates of the Raja's wife, who treats him well. E - The Raja's wife explains her husband's rationality. She is proud 5 • • of her son, but distraught at what her estranged husband has done. F - The governor of Glubbdubdrib, a famous sorcerer, detains Gulliver. Here Gulliver is 6 • • pretending to be drugged while he is aware of what the governor is using Gulliver's blood for. G - Balnibarbi and Glubbdubdrib are wasted by their rulers' rationality. The academy leading 7 very many experiments • • that 'proved' persuasive on paper has had devastating practical effects. Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 2 H - Gulliver in Lagado, Balnibarbi, at the academy, witnesses 8 • • research including, as here, to extract sunlight from cucumbers! I - Having rescued Gulliver from Strudlebrugs, 9 Glubbdubdrib's governor • • entertains an unsuspecting Gulliver to a drugged meal. J - Summoned with Gulliver's blood, Alexander the Great 10 • • emerges to be consulted by Glubbdubdrib's governor K - Told at dinner he will sail for Luggnagg and home next day, Gulliver realizes he has heard 11 this the night before, due • • to finger tip wounds from which blood has been extracted for necromancy. Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 3 L - Glubbdubdrib's governor leads Gulliver down a hallway to a 12 • • large mirror from which historical characters emerge for interview. Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 4 Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 9 & 10 Date: _______________ G V U V K H W F P R O B L E M S O W Y N L L H C J R O C Q Q Q P S H G S A J V R P C U V V L Y F V I ' M E N G L I S H L J Z Q M O H F W M A T H E M A T I C A L V P B O D T E R R I B L E C R I M E M 3 V F H A G A D L E S S O N S C S E B Z R F C C Q L X L R Y R A J A M B V H R C D S L Q O V N D C P T Y M E A B M K E Z J E H Y W U J I Q L L Q H X L I A I A X U J T U I I N O B S I T S O J R L E T E N L O T T N D T B A N T T L D D A O H A E A O H P A G N R E R S C D T ' Y M L S 1 P E L G D S I T Y I B W H V S S T E T 7 U F A F T M A S R M X I M H W I A S I U T L O N K E V B L G E C M A I A L S N 6 A P A A I M J J V A B N X V N N O B D S N I V K N I Q Y J X N A W Q G J N V I C G M U G G U S B C D W D M G S J S V E R Q W P F U A H J H F R E S H A I R S S U M A T H E M A T I C S S P U L A P U T A breathless Glumdalclitch talons bird's wings fresh air I'm English countrymen giants 3rd June 1706 Bristol terrible crime East Indies Malaysia Laputa Laputan Raja King mathematical problems flying island School of Mathematics Balnibarbi Lagado Eaten them Lessons Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 9 & 10 Date: _______________ place visited by Gulliver as part of the academy in 1 Brobdingnag A • • Lagado, Balnibarbi 2 south coast • • bar-bar-black sheep circled B port to which Gulliver returns in England only to set 3 Ten men C • • out on another voyage from there each time 4 Bristol • • flying island D 5 Tongking • • capital city of Balnibari E 6 Laputa • • land ruled over by Laputans F a square of the gulf that is a part of Vietnam. Listen up in US 7 G beef • • history for the 'Gulf of Tongking resolution'. a circle of one of the mathematical meals provided to Gulliver 8 H lamb • • on Laputa a triangle of another one of the mathematical meals Gulliver 9 I chicken • • received on Laputa music and the pedagogic methods used in Lagado at the 10 J mathematics • • academy School of 11 the only things that Laputans take an interest in K Mathematics • • what students at the academy in Lagado do to their 12 Balnibarbi L • • lessons the huge box found with Gulliver in it by English 13 Lagado M • • sailors, the story differs here from the film place from which a bird of prey carries Gulliver 14 Eaten them N • • away system of part of Brobdingnag that the King and Queen 15 O teaching • • traveled to from where Gulliver left Brobdingnag Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 Name: ________________________ Gulliver's Travels 9 & 10 Date: _______________ 18 14 1 15 8 19 11 24 3 17 21 20 9 16 5 6 22 25 23 10 7 4 12 13 Created at Quickworksheets.net Page 1 Across Down 4.
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