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  What does Jonathan Swift suggest in A Modest Proposal?
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Answered: 104 times
Correct: 82 times (68.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 22 times (18.3%)
Skipped: 16 times (13.3%)
  What do the brothers Jack, Martin, and Peter represent in Jonathan Swift's allegory A Tale of a Tub and Other Works?
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Answered: 160 times
Correct: 76 times (14.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 84 times (16.5%)
Skipped: 349 times (68.6%)
  Brobdinagians populate which Jonathan Swift tale? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5266 times
Correct: 4933 times (77.6%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 333 times (5.2%)
Skipped: 1095 times (17.2%)
  Into how many sections is Gulliver's Travels divided? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2484 times
Correct: 1569 times (41.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 915 times (24.3%)
Skipped: 1286 times (34.1%)
  In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver becomes severely misanthropic due to his experiences in which place? see if you know the answer
Answered: 194 times
Correct: 90 times (33.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 104 times (39.0%)
Skipped: 73 times (27.3%)
  What eponym from Gulliver's Travels has entered the English language as a synonym for "a rough, uncultured person"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2804 times
Correct: 1548 times (46.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1256 times (37.6%)
Skipped: 532 times (15.9%)
  In which location does Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels encounter a society of giants who take him in as a pet? see if you know the answer
Answered: 335 times
Correct: 254 times (62.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 81 times (20.0%)
Skipped: 69 times (17.1%)
  Which author's body was moved nine years after it was buried? see if you know the answer
Answered: 117 times
Correct: 46 times (27.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 71 times (41.8%)
Skipped: 53 times (31.2%)
  In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, what do the Big-Endians and Little-Endians quarrel about? see if you know the answer
Answered: 582 times
Correct: 332 times (36.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 250 times (27.2%)
Skipped: 336 times (36.6%)
  Satirist Jonathan Swift made his living as what? see if you know the answer
Answered: 635 times
Correct: 311 times (36.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 324 times (37.5%)
Skipped: 228 times (26.4%)
  "I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull"

... is (after the preface) the beginning of ... 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 289 times
Correct: 144 times (38.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 145 times (38.4%)
Skipped: 89 times (23.5%)
  Amaurot is the capital of ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 251 times
Correct: 107 times (26.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 144 times (35.7%)
Skipped: 152 times (37.7%)
  "He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him."

Who said this about whom? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 79 times
Correct: 53 times (49.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 26 times (24.3%)
Skipped: 28 times (26.2%)
  Who did Tobias Smollett call "that great Cham of literature"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 44 times
Correct: 31 times (39.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 13 times (16.5%)
Skipped: 35 times (44.3%)
  From 1714 until his death in 1745, Jonathan Swift was the dean of which one of these cathedrals? see if you know the answer
Answered: 43 times
Correct: 18 times (27.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 25 times (38.5%)
Skipped: 22 times (33.8%)

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