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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening to Chapter 5, who does one of Kim and the lama's escorts say walk to and fro without reason?
(a) The young and stout hearted
(b) The English and devils
(c) Fools and children
(d) The English and their servants

2. Where does the Hindu money-lender keep his account-book?
(a) In a cloth under his arm
(b) Locked in a truck
(c) Hung around his neck
(d) Tied to his pack

3. How does the woman who looks after Kim insist he dress?
(a) In native Indian robes
(b) She has no preference
(c) In a European style
(d) In military fashion

4. How old is Kim at the opening to the novel?
(a) 22
(b) 9
(c) 17
(d) 13

5. Of whom does the lama take no notice on the train?
(a) The money-lender
(b) Women
(c) The soldier
(d) Kim

6. Who could ask the Curator to explain something at the Lahore Museum?
(a) Those who sought wisdom
(b) Any adult male
(c) Only the wealthy
(d) Those of the upper castes

7. Who buys the lama a ticket to Umballa?
(a) The Amritzar woman
(b) Kim
(c) The soldier who has finished his military service
(d) The money-lender

8. What does Chaplain Bennett think of as the "Scarlet Woman"?
(a) The Church of England
(b) The camp follower's leader
(c) The Catholic Church of Ireland
(d) The native Indians who betray their country

9. Where does the Curator say is the River that is the Fountain of Wisdom where the arrow fell?
(a) It is the Euphrates River
(b) It is a frozen river in the north of Russia
(c) Somewhere in the Amazon jungle
(d) The curator does not know where it is

10. Why is Chaplain Bennett uninterested in the lama?
(a) The Chaplain has to obey orders that there is to be no interactions with natives
(b) Bennett considers the lama a heathen
(c) The lama knows nothing about Kim's background
(d) The lama will not speak to Bennett

11. What does Father Victor say he would give a good deal to be able to do?
(a) Move about India as Kim does
(b) Embrace differences
(c) Be free of restrictions
(d) Speak the vernacular

12. Why is the priest cold and distant as Kim and the lama leave the village the next morning?
(a) Because the priest got no money out of the lama
(b) Because the lama chastised the priest
(c) Because Kim put doubt about the priest in the villagers' eyes
(d) Because the lama predicted the day of the priest's death

13. What does the Commander-in-Chief say an upcoming military action is?
(a) War
(b) Defensive posturing
(c) Punishment
(d) Justice

14. What does Kim call the Curator at the museum?
(a) Brother
(b) Protector
(c) Sahib
(d) Bwana

15. Of what does the constable try to convince Kim?
(a) That there is a takkus for use of the roads
(b) That the soldier had stolen the money he gives to Kim
(c) That Lord Krishna stayed in their village
(d) That the Sirkar welcomes all holy men to their village

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chaplain Bennett do to prove his mettle?

2. What does the lama say he sometimes wonders about Kim?

3. Who tries to reassure the lama about boarding the train?

4. In what way does Kim say he is not like the lama?

5. Of what god does the lama speak on the carriage?

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