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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 is one skill attributed to Sahib?

2. What does the lama want Kim to do?

3. Why is the lama upset?

4. How is Mookerjee disguised when Kim encounters him at the old woman's home?

5. Who sends Kim to Lurgan Sahib's home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Kim. Trace and analyze one major theme of Kim. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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