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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the lama seeking?
(a) A river
(b) Hope
(c) An audience with a hermit holy man
(d) Forgiveness

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. In what way does Kim say he is not like the lama?
(a) Kim is not a believer in a higher power
(b) Kim has no influence over the fates
(c) Kim is not constrained to interacting with women
(d) Kim cannot read or write

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

14. What does a man who was illegally collecting bridge taxes affix to the bridge to convince travelers of the veracity of the tax?
(a) A turban
(b) A label from a soda water bottle
(c) A picture of the Sirkar blessing the collector
(d) A prayer wheel with donation cans

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the priest cold and distant as Kim and the lama leave the village the next morning?

2. What is one thing the woman in the opium den placed in a bag around Kim's neck?

3. What happened in the country at the moment Kim had first cried after being born?

4. Who pulls the lama aboard the train?

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

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