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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Chaplain Bennett think Kim should go immediately?
(a) The Masonic Orphanage
(b) Ireland
(c) Lompoc
(d) England

3. What does the lama think Kim should do?
(a) Pray for guidance
(b) Leave with the lama right away
(c) Go back to his own people
(d) Run off at the first opportunity

4. Who pulls the lama aboard the train?
(a) The cultivator
(b) Kim
(c) The money-lender
(d) The soldier

5. What does Kim see walking in the distance when they are on the grazing ground?
(a) A group of Kurds
(b) A herd of wild elephants
(c) A dust storm
(d) Soldiers

6. What does Kim hold as he is belly-crawling towards the mess tent?
(a) His father's letter
(b) A cross
(c) His birth certificate
(d) His amulet

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

8. What does the farmer call the water that Kim calls a river?
(a) Sewer lane
(b) Stream
(c) Canal-cut
(d) Lake

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

10. Where is the young Dogra soldier headed?
(a) To the war in China
(b) Home as his contract has expired
(c) To British Bengal
(d) Home on leave

11. What does Father Victor say he would give a good deal to be able to do?
(a) Be free of restrictions
(b) Embrace differences
(c) Speak the vernacular
(d) Move about India as Kim does

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

13. Who tries to reassure the lama about boarding the train?
(a) The conductor
(b) A young boy
(c) A Sikh artisan
(d) A soldier

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where would the lama go if he were not searching for his river?

2. What had Kim's father scrawled on Kim's papers?

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

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

5. Of what god does the lama speak on the carriage?

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