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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 Colonel Creighton envision for Kim's future?

2. What is said to be Mookerjee's role in Creighton's group

3. What charm does Huneefa put on Kim?

4. Why do the spies' servants do to one spy?

5. How does Kim fare in his second year at St. Xavier's?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Lurgan Sahib?

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

5. What does Mahbub Ali say to Kim when he comes to visit?

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

7. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

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

10. What is Mookerjee's motivation in encountering the spies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

Compare/contrast the characters of Kim and the lama. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Mookerjee and Ali. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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