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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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

5. Of what does Kim regale the children?
(a) Tales of Lahore and rail travel
(b) Of the British and their exploits
(c) Of mystical appearances
(d) Of the lama who commands the beasts of the field

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

7. How had the money-lender suggested he and his wife travel?
(a) Walking along the coast
(b) By cart along the road
(c) He did not want to travel at all
(d) On the train

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

9. What is the time frame of the setting?
(a) Late 1700s
(b) Early 1930s
(c) Early 1800s
(d) Late 1800s

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

11. What group is marching towards the field and singing?
(a) The Gurkha regiment
(b) The Highlander Guards
(c) The Sikh regiment
(d) The Mulligan Guards

12. What comes out of the weeds by the canal bank?
(a) A mongoose
(b) A cow
(c) A cobra
(d) A swan

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kim say the lama always wants when the lama pulls out his beads?

2. What do the natives call the Lahore Museum?

3. Where were the lama's spectacles made?

4. What is the lama seeking?

5. What was the confirmation in Kim's mind of the prophesy after seeing one sign?

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