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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 sends Kim to Lurgan Sahib's home?

2. What does the lama want Kim to do?

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

4. How does Kim's watchdog treat Kim?

5. For what is the "Great Game" a colloquialism

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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