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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 comes out of the weeds by the canal bank?
(a) A mongoose
(b) A cobra
(c) A swan
(d) A cow

2. How old is Kim at the opening to the novel?
(a) 17
(b) 9
(c) 13
(d) 22

3. What is the occupation of an Amritzar woman sitting near the window on the train?
(a) Matchmaker
(b) Lama
(c) Seamstress
(d) Courtesan

4. In the opening to Chapter 5, who does one of Kim and the lama's escorts say walk to and fro without reason?
(a) The young and stout hearted
(b) Fools and children
(c) The English and devils
(d) The English and their servants

5. What is one thing the woman in the opium den placed in a bag around Kim's neck?
(a) Kim's Baptismal certificate
(b) A charm made by a fakir
(c) Kim's father's birth certificate
(d) A list of Kim's relatives in Holland

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the best schooling a Sahib boy can get in India?

2. Who does Kim learn to avoid as he gets older?

3. What does the farmer call the water that Kim calls a river?

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

5. Where was one of the men of fashion found dead on the night of the earthquake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Kimball O'Hara's connection to the Red Bull?

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

3. What does the lama do when he and Kim enter the railway station?

4. What is said about Kim at the opening of the novel?

5. What important news does Kim overhear as he lies in the bushes after delivering his message?

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

7. What happens when Kim and the lama approach Umballa?

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

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

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

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