Gulliver Modest Proposal HistoryTimeline Vocab 10 Part 1
Gulliver’s first journey/shipwreck takes him to _______
Liliput
Gulliver is treated like a pet or court jester in _______
Brobdingnag
Gulliver’s Travels is in the style of a _____ _________.
Travel Tale
What does “Big Enders” and “Little Enders” refer to?
The division among the Liliputians based on which side of an egg they crack open
Why does the King of Brobdingnag become angry at Gulliver?
Gulliver describes human society in a way that makes the king contemptuous of humans, comparing them to insects
“A Modest Proposal” is about the conditions in _______
Ireland
The essay is written by _____
Jonathan Swift
Name 2 of the problems that the author claims his proposal would solve.
Starvation, overcrowding, burden of children on the working class
What issue involving British landowners does the author address? (Hint: He thinks it is one of the most serious issues facing the nation)
Absentee land owners who profited from the land they owned but never lived there
What are ‘papists’ or the ‘popish’?
Catholic
The removal of James II with very little fighting was known as the __________
Bloodless Revolution or Glorious Revolution
During the Enlightenment, two religious groups in conflict in England are the ____ and the ____
Roman Catholics and Protestants
What ‘writer’ witnessed the coronation of Charles II and wrote about it?
Samuel Pepys
The two politican parties that were most popular in England during the Enlightment were the ____ and the ____
Whigs and the Tories
Voltaire’s satire about Candide joining an inept army and immediately becoming a hero are based on Voltaire’s disdain for the actual country/kingdom of _____
Bulgaria
Restoration/Enlightenment
1400s to 1600s
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Before 1066 AD
Anglo-Saxons
Free Question: Early1800s
Romantic Era
Excessive or blind adoration
idolatry
Dishonorable, shameful
ignoble
Likely to happen; threatening
imminent
To kill as a sacrifice, usually by fire
immolation
unchangeable
immutable