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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) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

2. What types of trees made up the wood to which Carnehan and Dravot were led by their new subjects?
(a) Madrona.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Elm.

3. Dravot told Carnehan that he planned to give a particular object to what monarch?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Queen Alexandria.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) King James.

4. What type of literary device is Rudyard Kipling uses in the phrase "as loud as a braying donkey" (46)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Paradox.

5. Dravot declared that the marriage of a king is a matter of what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Perspective.
(c) State.
(d) Taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something Carnehan did NOT tell the narrator about the mountains in Kafiristan?

2. How many men were in Dravot's Council of War?

3. The priest told Carnehan that his future bride was feeling what emotion prior to the wedding?

4. Carnehan stated that dealings with women in foreign lands are always what?

5. What object did Dravot use as a gavel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What similarities do Dravot and Carnehan see between themselves and the native peoples of Kafiristan?

5. What sorts of disguises do Carnehan and Dravot don in order to make it safely to Kafiristan?

6. How does Dravot expand his power after becoming king in only one village?

7. What do crowns symbolize in part of the story when they first appear?

8. In what way do Carnehan and Dravot begin their rise to power?

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

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

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