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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 does Kim's watchdog treat Kim?

2. What does the lama ever hope to obtain?

3. Who asks for help for his sick child?

4. What is Sahib's occupation?

5. How does the lama respond to the demand by the spy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

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

6. Where does Mookerjee take Kim, and what does the man give Kim?

7. Who is Hurree Chunder Mookerjee and what is Mookerjee's response to observing Kim's training?

8. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an important part of what makes Kim interesting. Discuss the following:

Thoroughly discuss and analyze Kim. What are his strengths and weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he usually likable? Seldom likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the same criteria to thoroughly discuss and analyze Ali and Mookerjee.

Essay Topic 2

Since he was a young child, Kim had been told by his guardian that his father, a former soldier, had said that a red bull in a green field would be Kim's salvation.

Research the term narrative contrivance and explain why Kim seeing the red bull flag is or is not a narrative contrivance. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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