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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of the man in "Gehazi"?
(a) Baker.
(b) Metal worker.
(c) Judge.
(d) Soldier.

2. What does "The Lesson" make a case for doing?
(a) Learning from our helders.
(b) Learning from past mistakes.
(c) Leaning from others.
(d) Learning from the priests.

3. What do the attitudes of the men in "Mesopotamia" bring to the human race?
(a) Glory.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Shame.
(d) Good stories.

4. What does the character of "McAndrew's Hymn" try to make excuses for?
(a) His years neglecting his children.
(b) His lack of morality in war.
(c) His behavior toward god.
(d) His years of not going to church.

5. What makes the character in "Gehazi" evidently dishonest?
(a) His history.
(b) His leprosy.
(c) His face.
(d) His limping leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man in "The Galley-Slave" gain that made him part of the ship?

2. Where is Mulholland forced to go back to after being saved in "Mulholland's Contract"?

3. Whose lives does "The Masque of Plenty" describe?

4. What will one day come in "The Undertaker's Horse"?

5. What does the main character in "One Viceroy Resigns" tell the other one not to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kipling write about in "The Houses"?

2. What does Kipling write about in "Our Lady of the Snows"?

3. What is Mullholland's pact with God in "Mullholland's Contract"?

4. What does "The Native Poem" describe?

5. What do the creatures do in "The Hyenas"?

6. What did the general do in "General Joubert"?

7. What does Kipling's "Prelude" focus on?

8. What does Kipling write about in "The Undertaker's Horse"?

9. What does "Epitaphs of War" include a variety of?

10. What does Kipling refer to in "Gehazi"?

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