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1. 1.

   How did Gulliver show his ingenuity during his stay in the royal palace in Brobdingnag?
2. 2.

   Why did Gulliver try to hide the vices of his country and highlight the virtues? How did the king react to this approach of his?
3. 3.

   Explain these lines spoken by the king: " I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
4. 4.

   Explain: He said "he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poison in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials."
5. 5.

   Discuss the efforts of Gulliver to please the king and queen of Brobdingnag?

6. 6.

   What information does Gulliver impart to the king about England's House of Commons and courts of justice?