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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Chaplain Bennett do to prove his mettle?
(a) Rode a wild stallion
(b) Threw a large boulder
(c) Marched all day with the troops
(d) Raised a mess tent alone

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where would the lama go if he were not searching for his river?
(a) Benares
(b) Off the physical plane
(c) Hollywood
(d) Tibet

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

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

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

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

13. Of what god does the lama speak on the carriage?
(a) Buddha
(b) Jehova
(c) None
(d) Kali

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

15. What does Kim "prophesy" to the Chaplains?
(a) The end of British rule in India
(b) Kim's ascendance to being a great spy
(c) The beginning of a lasting peace
(d) War

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Kim upbraid the ticket clerk?

2. What is Kim's nickname?

3. Of what does Kim's mother die?

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

5. Why does the farmer offer Kim and the lama milk and a meal?

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