Which sentence in the passage contains an allusion

10 Question Quiz on Gulliver's Travels, English homework help
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(story is here > http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/literature/978007879... on pages 559 - 567)

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All of the following were part of the proposal from the Lilliputians EXCEPT:

[A] Asking Gulliver not to leave the area without permission

[B] Asking Gulliver to give warning before going to their city

[C] Asking Gulliver to pay a monthly amount to help support them

[D] Asking Gulliver to take care as he walks so as not to trample anyone

What is the King’s reaction to Gulliver’s description of the invention?

[A] He is amazed and wants to introduce it to his kingdom

[B] He wonders how many of his enemy he could kill before the enemy learned how to use it

[C] He says the invention is from an “evil genius” and wants nothing to do with it

[D] He thanks Gulliver and accepts a barrel of it for his storehouse

What does the King think of Gulliver’s native homeland?

[A] The people sound intelligent and kind

[B] The people sound pernicious and evil

[C] The people seem smart but mean

[D] The people seem mean but smart

Which passage might show Swift’s misanthropy, as voiced through Gulliver?

[A] And thus he continued on, while my color came and went several times with indignation to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honor, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated…”

[B] “The King was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines and the proposal I had made.”

[C] “He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition could produce.”