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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. The narrator offered Dravot and Carnehan what type of help if they would postpone their journey?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Work.

2. Once the narrator was joined by another train passenger, the passenger was described using what adjective?
(a) Dapper.
(b) Huge.
(c) Small.
(d) Smug.

3. The narrator agreed to take what action at Marwar Junction?
(a) To buy dinner.
(b) To get off the train.
(c) To buy a transfer ticket.
(d) To deliver a message.

4. Darvot told the narrator that he and Carnehan could both perform what action, though they were not very educated?
(a) Read.
(b) Recite the multiplication tables.
(c) Write.
(d) Work sums.

5. The narrator told Dravot and Carnehan that no one really knew anything about their destination, but he did suggest that they read works by what author?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Kipling.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Bellew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dravot told the narrator that he and Carnehan were just "two" examples of what type of lunatic?

2. Carnehan said that he and Dravot were frightened of nothing but what?

3. The men who stood in the narrator's way said they had been sleeping in what location?

4. What object of Dravot's was filling "half the room" (15) in the newspaper office?

5. What is the meaning of the phrase, "kaa-pi chayha-yeh" (12)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Existential viewpoint set forth in the epigraph?

2. The narrator states that "Native States were created by Providence" (8) for what three reasons?

3. Compare and contrast the narrator with the "huge" (3) man who joins him along the first leg of his journey.

4. What is the narrator's reward for delivering the requested message?

5. In what setting does the opening scene of the narrator's story occur?

6. In what way does the theme of ambition arise within the scene in the newspaper office when the narrator, Carnehan, and Dravot meet together?

7. Between what two locations is the narrator traveling at the start of the story and at what location does another passenger enter his car?

8. In what two ways does the narrator describe a typical person belonging to the class of "Loafer" (4)?

9. At what object has the narrator been looking when Carnehan reminds him to maintain eye contact?

10. What is the tenet of the "Contrack" (17) between Dravot and Carnehan focusing on vices??

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