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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. At what object was the narrator looking when Carnehan instructed him to meet his gaze?
2. The priest told Carnehan that his future bride was feeling what emotion prior to the wedding?
3. For each dead man Dravot found, he poured a bit of what type of liquid on the ground?
4. What object did Dravot use as a gavel?
5. When two men approached Dravot and Carnehan, how many mules did the men have with them?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Carnehan use the second-person point of view to depict the harsh nature of the journey of Carnehan and Dravot as they travel through the mountains?
2. How does Dravot expand his power after becoming king in only one village?
3. In what way does Dravot cement his status as a person of authority when he is brought to the stone of Imbra?
4. What argument does Carnehan make against Dravot's desire for a wife?
5. What offer does Dravot make to the Chief who visits Dravot's kingdom?
6. What do crowns symbolize in part of the story when they first appear?
7. What happens when a Chief from a neighboring community approaches Dravot's new kingdom?
8. What happens when the suspicious priest in Kafiristan brushes the dirt off of the stone of Imbra?
9. What does the first set of disguises worn by Carnehan and Dravot symbolize?
10. The pine wood that serves as a religious location for the people of Kafiristan contains what religious structures?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrator’s seeming ambivalence about the news of Carnehan’s death at the end of the story.
Essay Topic 2
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the story, and what is Kipling’s message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the reasons why Kipling uses the first person point-of-view, combined with a framed narrative. What elements of the story’s themes lend themselves to this choice, and what is Kipling’s intended effect on the reader?
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