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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. Who/what is E23?

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

3. Of what does Kim's visitor try to convince Kim?

4. Where does Mookerjee take Kim?

5. When does Mookerjee happen upon Kim and the lama?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artwork does the lama show Kim?

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Lurgan Sahib?

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

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

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

10. How does Kim help a Punjabi farmer when Kim is disguised as a Buddhist monk?

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

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 3

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.

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