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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 does the man in "The Ladies" think he learned everything there is to know about?

2. What does Kipling think people are giving themselves by getting a dog, according to "The Power of the Dog"?

3. What do men in the service lose according to "The Service Man"?

4. What is the ritual described in "The Cuckoo Song"?

5. Who does Dinah wait for in "Dinah in Heaven"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does the poem "Our Lady of the Sackcloth" tell?

2. What does the chauffeur talk about in "The Dying Chauffeur"?

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

4. What pain does "The Burden" express?

5. How do men die in "The King's Pilgrimage"?

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

7. What does "That Day" depict?

8. What does Kipling urge in "A Preface"?

9. What does "Back to the Army Again" detail?

10. What is a man indicate in "Half-Ballade of Watervale"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a poem in which Kipling uses personification and discuss its meaning in the poem.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of leprosy in the poem, "Gehazi."

Essay Topic 3

Choose a poem in which Kipling uses alliteration, define the term, and discuss Kipling's use of the technique.

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