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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 Sahib's occupation?

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

3. What does Mookerjee give Kim?

4. What does Kim begin to question?

5. What does Kim do in his Christmas holiday during his third year at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What artwork does the lama show Kim?

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

10. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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