Read the selection below from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows.




One day the governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops, where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to the sides of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spectacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body. There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five wool-packs; and another, with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty feet high. But the most hateful sight of all, was the lice crawling on their clothes. I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.




Which motives for writing a travel narrative does the passage above suggest best?


I. set up an English military conquest of Brobdingnag


II. write about religious conversions of Brobdingnagians


III. help establish a cultural relationship between England and Brobdingnag


III only

I, II, and III

II only

II and III