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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the old man who Kim talks to outside the Lahore Museum?
(a) Marrakesh
(b) Kathmandu
(c) Lhasa
(d) Kulu

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

3. Where was one of the men of fashion found dead on the night of the earthquake?
(a) In an opium den
(b) By the main city's fountain
(c) At the bottom of a well
(d) Leaning up against the city's wall

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

5. 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

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

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

8. What is Kim's nickname?
(a) Friend of All the World
(b) Friend of All the Outcasts
(c) The Fox
(d) The Elephant

9. What do Kim and the lama encounter at the end of Chapter 2 as they are walking towards a stream?
(a) A red bull
(b) A cripple
(c) A pack of dogs
(d) A battalion of British infantrymen

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

11. 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

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

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

14. How long does it take the regiment to pitch camp and Kim and the lama watch?
(a) 2 hours
(b) Half a day
(c) Several hours
(d) 30 minutes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who could ask the Curator to explain something at the Lahore Museum?

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

3. With whom does the money-lender say train passengers sit?

4. What does the lama think Kim should do?

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

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