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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To whom does the money lender say it is well to be kind?
(a) The poor
(b) The priests
(c) The landowners
(d) The gods

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

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

6. Who does Kim learn to avoid as he gets older?
(a) Missionaries
(b) Military officers
(c) Census-takers
(d) Tax collectors

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

8. To what does the old lady compare the cool and the pines of the Kangra and Kulu hills?
(a) The dust and mangoes of the South
(b) Paradise
(c) The interior of a man's heart
(d) Mississippi

9. Of what does Kim's father's estate consist when the father dies?
(a) Three papers
(b) Fifty pounds
(c) A rusty sword and a pair of boots
(d) Five hundred pounds

10. About what does Kim brag to the lama?
(a) That Kim is more generous than any man in India
(b) That Kim will always have money
(c) That Kim is an excellent disciple for the lama
(d) That Kim is smarter than any man in India

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

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

13. What had Kim's father scrawled on Kim's papers?
(a) This boy's parents are both British
(b) This boy is a British citizen
(c) This boy's grandfather is a British Lord
(d) Look after the boy

14. What garb does Kim slip into when conducting certain types of business
(a) European
(b) Hindu or Mohmmedan
(c) American
(d) Military

15. With whom does the money-lender say train passengers sit?
(a) Angels
(b) Thieves
(c) Persons of all castes
(d) Mongrels and geese

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the constable try to convince Kim?

2. What does the soldier who gives Kim the four-anna silver piece say as the soldier turns his horse to leave?

3. From what country were Kim's parents?

4. How does the lama bless those he encounters?

5. For what does Kim upbraid the ticket clerk?

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