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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the soldier who gives Kim the four-anna silver piece say as the soldier turns his horse to leave?
(a) For once the soldier has met a true prophet who is not in the army
(b) Say a blessing for the soldier's mother
(c) Have a save trip
(d) Go and return not to this province

8. Why is the priest cold and distant as Kim and the lama leave the village the next morning?
(a) Because the priest got no money out of the lama
(b) Because the lama chastised the priest
(c) Because the lama predicted the day of the priest's death
(d) Because Kim put doubt about the priest in the villagers' eyes

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

10. What had Kim's father scrawled on Kim's papers?
(a) This boy is a British citizen
(b) This boy's parents are both British
(c) Look after the boy
(d) This boy's grandfather is a British Lord

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

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

13. What is the sole ornament that is on the table in the mess tent?
(a) A rearing horse figure
(b) A crucifix
(c) A golden bull
(d) The figure of the Buddha

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the money lender say it is well to be kind?

2. What garb does Kim slip into when conducting certain types of business

3. What is the Punjabi constable who sees the solider hand Kim money wearing?

4. Of what does Kim's father's estate consist when the father dies?

5. What does Kim see walking in the distance when they are on the grazing ground?

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