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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

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

5. Who does Kim learn to avoid as he gets older?
(a) Missionaries
(b) Census-takers
(c) Tax collectors
(d) Military officers

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Kim regale the children?

2. What does the lama do as he and Kim walk?

3. Who is quoted in the four-line epigraph to Chapter 2?

4. What does the lama call the railway station as he looks at its layout?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Grand Trunk Road?

2. How does Kim play a prank on his hosts that night in Umballa?

3. Where does Kim first go when he gets the Lama situated for the night?

4. What do Kim and the lama do at the end of Chapter 7?

5. How does the farmer on the outskirts of Umballa first respond to Kim and the lama, and what changes the farmer's response?

6. How does Kim react to the farmer's curses, and what does the lama say to Kim about Kim's reaction?

7. Who comes by the home of the place where Kim and the lama are staying, and what ensues?

8. Why is Kim known to his friends as Friend of All the World?

9. What does the lama lecture the soldier about and how does the soldier point out an inconsistency in the lama?

10. What is the significance to Kim of the Red Bull?

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