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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the natives call the Lahore Museum?
(a) The Dead House
(b) White Man's History
(c) The Tomb
(d) The Wonder House

2. To where does Kim buy a train ticket for the lama?
(a) Delhi
(b) Siliguru
(c) Kathmandu
(d) Umballa

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

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

5. For what does Kim upbraid the ticket clerk?
(a) For giving Kim a ticket for a station just six miles hence
(b) For trying to make Kim pay too much for the ticket
(c) For not giving Kim enough change
(d) For rudeness

6. How long does it take the regiment to pitch camp and Kim and the lama watch?
(a) 2 hours
(b) 30 minutes
(c) Half a day
(d) Several hours

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

8. What happened in the country at the moment Kim had first cried after being born?
(a) A massacre
(b) A cyclone
(c) A strangely-colored sky
(d) An earthquake

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

10. What does the lama call the railway station as he looks at its layout?
(a) A lion's den
(b) The work of the devil
(c) The wonder of the world
(d) A hopeless place

11. What does the angry farmer brandish at Kim and the lama at the opening to Chapter 3?
(a) An iron pole
(b) A staff
(c) A strap
(d) A knife

12. Where is the novel set?
(a) Nepal
(b) India
(c) The Caribbean
(d) Bangladesh

13. Who is quoted in the four-line epigraph to Chapter 2?
(a) Lao-Tse
(b) Ming Tze
(c) Han Chou
(d) Buddha

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

15. What does the soldier who gives Kim the four-anna silver piece say as the soldier turns his horse to leave?
(a) For once the soldier has met a true prophet who is not in the army
(b) Go and return not to this province
(c) Have a save trip
(d) Say a blessing for the soldier's mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of an Amritzar woman sitting near the window on the train?

2. What is the time frame of the setting?

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

4. Why is Kim given a four-anna silver piece by a soldier?

5. What does the Commander-in-Chief say an upcoming military action is?

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