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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 charm does Huneefa put on Kim?

2. What is a Sahib?

3. What is the purpose of the games they play?

4. For whom does Mookerjee say he is an emissary?

5. What is Sahib's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

6. What crisis does Kim go through as he assumes the role of a spy?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kim is an Irish boy whose father has passed away, and Kim been raised as an Indian by the owner of an opium den.

Discuss the differences between what happens to Kim, as an orphan in India in the late 1800’s and what would happen to Kim as an orphan in America in the present time. 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

Analyze and discuss what you think are the characteristics of a successful novel and why Kim is or is not a successful novel based on your criteria. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults?

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