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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose epitaph is included in "Epitaphs of the War"?
(a) King George III.
(b) Maurice Brack.
(c) Hindu Sepoy.
(d) Queen Victoria.

2. What queen is inaugurated in "The Young Queen" ?
(a) The new Queen of Russia.
(b) The new Queen of England.
(c) The new Queen of Australia.
(d) The new Queen of Austria.

3. What are the main characters of "The Native Poem" taught to be respectful of?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their Army.
(c) Their motherland.
(d) Their Queen.

4. Who does the main character of "One Viceroy Resigns" call on to help the man he shares his wisdom with?
(a) To God.
(b) A priest.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A teacher.

5. What does Kipling say females are quicker to do in "The Female of the Species"?
(a) Shop.
(b) Kill.
(c) Hide.
(d) Attack other females.

6. What is a reminder of those who died in "The Undertaker's Horse"?
(a) His rake.
(b) His dog.
(c) His horse.
(d) His daughter.

7. Who does the old Queen ask the witnesses of the crowning to be?
(a) The Three Free Nations.
(b) The Five Contiguous Nations.
(c) The Five Free Nations.
(d) The Five Vasal Nations.

8. What does Mulholland say he will do if God saves him in "Mulholland's Contract"?
(a) He will join the army.
(b) He will preach God's word.
(c) He will become a recluse monk.
(d) He will stop lying to make a profit.

9. What does the character in "The Ballad of the King's Jest" love to do?
(a) Travel.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Play golf.
(d) Talk.

10. Who is killed in the war the woman in the "Song of the Lathe" helps support?
(a) Her brother and father.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband and son.

11. Why are the hyenas not guilty of defiling the dead?
(a) They have no souls.
(b) They are animals.
(c) They are too wild.
(d) They are not Christians or Buddists.

12. What are the people in "The Islanders" enslaved to?
(a) Other men.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Their own desires.
(d) Their fear.

13. What did Kipling help the man learn about India?
(a) Its customs.
(b) Its heat is really bad.
(c) How happy its people is.
(d) How hard traveling there is.

14. What does the man in "The Galley-Slave" look back to at the start of the poem?
(a) His years working as a farmer.
(b) His years watching ships going out to sea.
(c) His marriage.
(d) The years he worked on the ship.

15. Who is the main character of "One Viceroy Resigns"?
(a) Lord Sauron.
(b) Lord Rick.
(c) Lord Dufferin.
(d) Lod Darmuh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kipling say of the son of the main character in "The 'Mary Gloster"?

2. What are Kipling's verses written for?

3. How does the King reward the man in "The Ballad of the King's Jest"?

4. What do the men on "The Veterans" ask them to pray for?

5. What does "The Lesson" make a case for doing?

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