View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kipling say the world has enough of in "The Power of the Dog"?
(a) Pain.
(b) Men.
(c) Power.
(d) Cuddles.

2. How can would a group a people make another uncomfortable according to "The Stranger"?
(a) By being anti-monarchy.
(b) By being different.
(c) By being too demanding.
(d) By not being Christian.

3. What can a fistful of English dirt and the flowers of the land make a man feel like according to "The Charm"?
(a) A rich man.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A king.
(d) A gardener.

4. What was signed in "The Reeds at Runnymede"?
(a) The Rochester Decree.
(b) The English Constitution.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Magna Carta.

5. What is "Four-feet" about?
(a) A cat.
(b) A horse.
(c) A goat.
(d) A dog.

6. Where does the British soldier in "Mandalay" want to return to?
(a) To a Burmese girl.
(b) War.
(c) England.
(d) His unit.

7. How are Christians referred to in "Hadramauti"?
(a) As a kind people
(b) As the only people that will go to heaven.
(c) As the best people.
(d) As spiteful, hateful people.

8. What does Jubal believe in doing in "Jubal and Tubal Cain"?
(a) Taking action to help right the wrongs.
(b) Staying out of the affair of the world.
(c) Following its leader blindly.
(d) Preaching about the evils of earth.

9. What is the ritual described in "The Cuckoo Song"?
(a) An old woman feeding a cuckoo each spring.
(b) A young man playing with a cuckoo.
(c) Cuckoos leaving for better climates.
(d) Cuckoos laying its eggs.

10. Whose trial is described in "Gallio's Song"?
(a) Mark's.
(b) Paul's.
(c) Ronald's.
(d) Joseph's.

11. What is "The Runes of Weland's Sword" about?
(a) What terrible things a woman can do.
(b) What terrible things a soldier can do.
(c) What terrible things a sword can do.
(d) What terrible things a man can do.

12. Who does the man in "A Smuggler's Song" tell to look away?
(a) The old neighbor.
(b) His partner.
(c) The police.
(d) His wife.

13. What can "little" people become according to "A Pict Song"?
(a) A disease.
(b) A saving grace.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A problem.

14. What happens when St. Peter see Dinah react to the arrival of the person she was waiting for in "Dinah in Heaven"?
(a) Both are accepted in heaven.
(b) Both are sent to hell.
(c) They are both sent back to earth.
(d) Dinah is sent to hell.

15. What does Kipling say might not be worth the time and energy in "The Kingdom"?
(a) The goals some people set for themselves.
(b) Politics and government.
(c) Being rich.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kipling note about the press in "The Press"?

2. What does the man in "The Return" say he did during his time in the army?

3. Why does the man in "Half-Ballade of Watervale" understand them?

4. What does Kipling say the men in "Pirates in England" were not able to take away?

5. What does Kipling make the case of sending young men back to after war?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 520 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample