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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 Christ willing to let his children do in "The Return of the Children"?

2. What happens when St. Peter see Dinah react to the arrival of the person she was waiting for in "Dinah in Heaven"?

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

4. How are Christians referred to in "Hadramauti"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kipling address in "The Service Man"?

2. What causes more grief in "The Power of the Dog"?

3. What viewpoint is the poem "Wilful-missings" written from?

4. What does "The Survival" speak of the passing of?

5. What is "Gallio's Song" based on?

6. What does "The Rabbi's Song" talk about?

7. What does Kipling advise his reader of in "The Comforters"?

8. What happens in the poem "Mandalay"?

9. What does "Four-feet" show about the man and the dog?

10. What happens to Dinah in "Dinah in Heaven"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Kipling's focus on serious issues, such as death, murder and gun control and the reason he focuses on such tough subjects.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Kipling's use of rhyme in his poetry, and why Kipling may have chosen a specific scheme.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how Kipling used linguistic clues in his poetry and conclude how it added or detracted from his writing.

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