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

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

4. What do the natives call the Lahore Museum?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Grand Trunk Road?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 belongs to the bildungsroman genre. Discuss the following:

Define the literary term "genre" and name three other genres in addition to the bildungsroman genre. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assigning a genre to a novel? What do you think is the difference between a bildungsroman and a historical novel or mystery?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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