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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. In what is Sahib a player?

2. What is the lama discussing when Mookerjee happens upon him and Kim?

3. What does Kim do in his next summer after his second year at St. Xavier's?

4. Who asks for help for his sick child?

5. Where does Kim go to see the lama?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

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

10. What does Colonel Creighton do while taking Kim to St. Xavier's and what is the Colonel's plan for Kim?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think most people want a happy ending in a novel? Do you think Kim would qualify as a novel with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fiction and do you think Kim fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

An epiphany occurs when a Russian spy rips the lama's Wheel of Life from his hands, which incites the lama to violence.

Explain what is meant by the word epiphany in the above sentence and how that epiphany affects the lama’s life. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

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