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

2. What does the lama think about Kim when he sees Kim transform the chain-man?

3. What does the lama carry with him constantly?

4. Where does Colonel Creighton accompany Kim?

5. At what is Sahib a master?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What artwork does the lama show 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

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

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

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