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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 Kim get the spies' servants to believe?

2. Why is the man under hot pursuit?

3. How is E23 disguised?

4. What does the letter from the lama say?

5. What does Mookerjee give Kim?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the lama's feelings about his reaction to his ripped artwork?

2. What does the letter that Father Victor receives from the lama offer?

3. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

4. What crisis does Kim go through as he assumes the role of a spy?

5. Why is Kim taken to see Huneefa when Kim is sixteen?

6. Who is set over to watch Kim, and how does the boy act?

7. How does Kim help a Punjabi farmer when Kim is disguised as a Buddhist monk?

8. How does one of the spies ruin the lama's drawing of the Wheel?

9. How does Mookerjee trick the Russian and French spies?

10. How does Kim spend his next summer and then the Christmas holiday after that?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Kim. Are these universal symbols that would have the same meaning in any culture? What other symbols could portray the same idea? Why do you think Kipling chooses the symbols he does?

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

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action-driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven or action-driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Kim is? Explain your response.

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