View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would the man in "A Smuggler's Song" answer any questions asked to him by the other character?

2. What can a fistful of English dirt and the flowers of the land make a man feel like according to "The Charm"?

3. What is "The Runes of Weland's Sword" about?

4. What is Christ willing to let his children do in "The Return of the Children"?

5. How is the wedding in "The Sergeant's Weddin'" conducted ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do bees threaten in "The Bee-Boy's Song"?

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

3. What happens in the poem "Mandalay"?

4. What does Kipling record in "Cain and Abel"?

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

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

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

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

9. What does a smuggler tell his wife in "A Smuggler's Song"?

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

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

Examine how Kipling uses religion to show man's disobedience and sinfulness.

Essay Topic 3

Choose a poem in which Kipling uses repetition and analyze its use.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 601 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample