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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does Kim say he is not like the lama?

3. Why is the priest cold and distant as Kim and the lama leave the village the next morning?

4. What does the old man want to see before he dies?

5. To where does Kim buy a train ticket for the lama?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Kulu?

3. What does Kim do when he sees the Red Bull, and what happens?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the lama believe about the Holy River?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kim, now completely alone and having been schooled as a Sahib but then thrust into the world in the guise of a Buddhist priest, begins to question what his identity is and where he belongs.

Discuss, in depth, why Kim might be having an identity crisis about who he is and where he fits into the world. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Kim is taken out of school at the age of sixteen to be trained and join a spy network called the Great Game.

Do you think the men who took Kim out of school at sixteen to make him a spy were wrong to do this? Why or why not? Use examples from Kim to support your response.

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