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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 do in his next summer after his second year at St. Xavier's?

2. Where does Kim go with the secret documents?

3. How does Kim's watchdog view India?

4. Of what does Kim's friend Ali say Kim should take advantage?

5. In what is Sahib a player?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unspoken agreement do Mahbub Ali and Kim reach when Kim travels with him during summer break from his first year in school?

2. How do Kim and the lama react differently to being in the Northern lands?

3. What does the lama think about Kim's transformation of E23?

4. Where is Kim sent at the beginning of Chapter 9 per Colonel Creighton's orders?

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

6. What does the lama say is ostensibly his reason for paying for Kim's schooling?

7. What is the main purpose for the spies the British have recruited?

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

9. What does Kim learn from Sahib and his servant boy?

10. How does Kim get a letter off to Mahbub Ali?

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

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 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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