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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 is Mookerjee's involvement with two spies?

2. With whom do the British believe the regions on the northern border of British India are allying themselves?

3. Where did Kim first encounter Colonel Creighton?

4. Of what do Ali and Sahib convince Creighton when Kim is sixteen?

5. Into what does Kim transform one of the chain-men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

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

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

5. What artwork does the lama show Kim?

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

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

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

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

10. Who is Lurgan Sahib?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Kim is taken out of school at the age of sixteen to be trained and join a spy network called the Great Game.

Do you think the men who took Kim out of school at sixteen to make him a spy were wrong to do this? Why or why not? Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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