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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is the best schooling a Sahib boy can get in India?
(a) Punjab Masonic Orphanage
(b) Military Orphanage
(c) St. Xavier's in Partibus
(d) St John's in Lucknow

5. How does the lama bless those he encounters?
(a) By touching them with his hands
(b) By giving them slips of paper with forgiveness written on them
(c) By chanting in Chinese
(d) With small prayer wheels

6. What does the lama do as he and Kim walk?
(a) Says his Rosary
(b) Tells parables
(c) Hums to himself
(d) Sings and chants

7. Why does Kim not run when he gets loose from Chaplain Bennett's grip?
(a) The Chaplain has Kim's crucifix
(b) The Chaplain has Kim's amulet
(c) The Chaplain has called guards, who appear
(d) The Chaplain seems genuinely kind

8. What is the Punjabi constable who sees the solider hand Kim money wearing?
(a) Yellow linen trousers
(b) A prayer shawl
(c) A loin cloth
(d) A turban

9. What do Kim and the lama encounter at the end of Chapter 2 as they are walking towards a stream?
(a) A red bull
(b) A pack of dogs
(c) A cripple
(d) A battalion of British infantrymen

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

11. Where were the lama's spectacles made?
(a) CHina
(b) Africa
(c) Tibet
(d) Europe

12. What is Kim's nickname?
(a) The Fox
(b) Friend of All the Outcasts
(c) Friend of All the World
(d) The Elephant

13. To what does the lama say the farmer, the lama and Kim are all bound?
(a) Honor
(b) The Wheel of Things
(c) A life of toil
(d) The call of death

14. Why is Kim given a four-anna silver piece by a soldier?
(a) For saving the man's life
(b) For work in the fields
(c) For asking the lama to give the man a blessing
(d) For bringing news of the imminent military action

15. What does the farmer call Kim and the lama?
(a) Beggars
(b) Holy men
(c) Scoundrels
(d) Travelers

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a proverb Kim quotes, when should one not talk to a white man?

2. What does Chaplain Bennett think of as the "Scarlet Woman"?

3. With whom does the money-lender say train passengers sit?

4. Of whom does the lama take no notice on the train?

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

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