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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. Carnehan told the narrator that which person had been responsible for stopping "the last Afghan raid" (45)?
2. What type of drink did the narrator offer to Carnehan when Carnehan's mind seemed to be slipping?
3. Dravot engaged in one particular activity for what fraction of the night before he was to be married?
4. The first man Dravot shot dead was located how far away from him?
5. Dravot declared that the marriage of a king is a matter of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. The pine wood that serves as a religious location for the people of Kafiristan contains what religious structures?
2. What sorts of names do Dravot and Carnehan call many of their new subjects and why?
3. Dravot cites what type of evidence when declaring that the people of Kafiristan are actually "English" (40)?
4. 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?
5. What similarities do Dravot and Carnehan see between themselves and the native peoples of Kafiristan?
6. What happens when a Chief from a neighboring community approaches Dravot's new kingdom?
7. Who are the members of Dravot's Privy Council and his Council of War?
8. What sorts of disguises do Carnehan and Dravot don in order to make it safely to Kafiristan?
9. What argument does Carnehan make against Dravot's desire for a wife?
10. What does the first set of disguises worn by Carnehan and Dravot symbolize?
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
Discuss the story’s messages concerning friendship and analyze the techniques Kipling uses in order to get these messages across to the reader.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how and why Kipling uses satire in three different scenes in his short story entitled "The Man Who Would Be King."
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