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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 the lama ever hope to obtain?

2. What does Mookerjee offer the two spies?

3. How does Kim's watchdog view India?

4. Who punches the lama in the face?

5. How does Huneefa disguise Kim?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What artwork does the lama show Kim?

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

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

8. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often, authors will write about what they know, and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Rudyard Kipling. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Kipling's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Kipling's probable agenda concerning that idea.

Essay Topic 2

Define plot and include the definitions of the most important elements of a plot. Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not? Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Kim, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot? Give a brief synopsis of any important sub-plots.

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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