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

2. 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

3. What was the confirmation in Kim's mind of the prophesy after seeing one sign?
(a) The sun rising and filling the grove with a golden light
(b) A dog howling
(c) The sound of the cavalry
(d) Two white, British soldiers coming towards Kim

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

5. Why is Chaplain Bennett uninterested in the lama?
(a) The lama knows nothing about Kim's background
(b) The lama will not speak to Bennett
(c) The Chaplain has to obey orders that there is to be no interactions with natives
(d) Bennett considers the lama a heathen

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take the regiment to pitch camp and Kim and the lama watch?

2. For what does Kim upbraid the ticket clerk?

3. Of whom does the lama take no notice on the train?

4. What does Kim say the lama always wants when the lama pulls out his beads?

5. Who pulls the lama aboard the train?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the cultivator and his wife going to Umballa and what do they offer to Kim and the Lama?

3. What agreement does Kim make with the lama in Chapter 1?

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

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

6. How does the railway clerk try to cheat the lama concerning the lama's ticket to Umballa, and who helps keep the Lama from being cheated?

7. Why do the two clergymen not allow Kim to go back and serve the lama?

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

9. Who is Kulu?

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

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