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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. How many priests did Dravot have in his Privy Council?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. In what type of material was Billy Fish wrapped for the occasion of Dravot's wedding?
(a) Burlap.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Fur.
(d) Silk.

3. Carnehan remarked that Dravot had set fire to what item in order to entertain the other people along on the caravan?
(a) His beard.
(b) The carpet.
(c) His hat.
(d) The tablecloth.

4. Carnehan and Dravot turned off before Jagdallak because they heard what items there were "good" (26)?
(a) The roads.
(b) The arts of war.
(c) The women.
(d) The water quality.

5. What action did Carnehan and Dravot take after they had chosen the best 20 of their new subjects?
(a) They taught them to advance in line.
(b) They taught them to clean their rifles.
(c) They taught them how to click off a rifle.
(d) They taught them to form fours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the end, how many men capable of drilling with weapons did Carnehan's training produce?

2. Carnehan realized that the man he and Dravot called Billy Fish was part of what organization?

3. After disguising themselves, Carnehan and Dravot traveled into what type of country?

4. When Carnehan described Dravot's voice as being "as loud as a braying donkey" (46), about what subject had Dravot been talking?

5. The "stone of Imbra" (37) was also what kind of practical object?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the people's hesitance to wed their daughters to Dravot?

2. What offer does Dravot make to the Chief who visits Dravot's kingdom?

3. Dravot cites what type of evidence when declaring that the people of Kafiristan are actually "English" (40)?

4. What argument does Carnehan make against Dravot's desire for a wife?

5. What sorts of names do Dravot and Carnehan call many of their new subjects and why?

6. What comparisons does Carnehan make between mountains and goats and what effect does the comparison have on the reader?

7. What happens when the suspicious priest in Kafiristan brushes the dirt off of the stone of Imbra?

8. What two items does Dravot name as the things the people of Kafiristan need in order to fulfill their fated English identities?

9. What does the first set of disguises worn by Carnehan and Dravot symbolize?

10. What happens when a Chief from a neighboring community approaches Dravot's new kingdom?

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