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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. Of what does the constable try to convince Kim?

2. What happened in the country at the moment Kim had first cried after being born?

3. What does the farmer call Kim and the lama?

4. What is the sole ornament that is on the table in the mess tent?

5. For what does Kim upbraid the ticket clerk?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where does Kim take place?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An epiphany occurs when a Russian spy rips the lama's Wheel of Life from his hands, which incites the lama to violence.

Explain what is meant by the word epiphany in the above sentence and how that epiphany affects the lama’s life. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Kim is an Irish boy whose father has passed away, and Kim been raised as an Indian by the owner of an opium den.

Discuss the differences between what happens to Kim, as an orphan in India in the late 1800’s and what would happen to Kim as an orphan in America in the present time. 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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