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Read the selection below from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows. But the greatest danger lever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks in
the kitchen [R]eaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat does when she plays with a mouse.. [he]
seized the lappet of my coat and dragged me out. He took me up in his right fore-foot, and held me as a nurse
does a child she is going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe, and
when I offered to struggle, he squeezed me so hard, that I thought it more prudent to submit
In the passage above, what important information about his relationship to the Brobdingnagians does Gulliver
emphasize?
O Gulliver and the Brobdingnagians have similar day-to-day problems.
O Gulliver admires the Brobdingnagians, and he wants to live in their country permanently
O Gulliver has more in common with monkeys and kittens than with the Brobdingnagian people
O Gulliver is much smaller than everyone and everything on Brobdingnag.

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