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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. How had the money-lender suggested he and his wife travel?

2. From where is the old man who Kim talks to outside the Lahore Museum?

3. How old is Kim at the opening to the novel?

4. Where does the Curator say is the River that is the Fountain of Wisdom where the arrow fell?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kim come upon while resting along the Grand Trunk Road?

3. What does Kim tell the priest who divines horoscopes about the hour of Kim's birth?

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

5. Who does Chaplain Bennett ask for help to question Kim, and what do they discover?

6. For what does the Buddhist lama Kim meets search?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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