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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the games they play?
(a) To pass the summer
(b) To make sure Kim can fight his way out of a tight spot.
(c) To enhance Kim's powers of observation
(d) To teach Kim more ways to assimilate into his birth's culture

2. What does the lama want Kim to do?
(a) Come back and travel with the lama
(b) Go to school at St. Xavier's
(c) Become a Catholic
(d) Become a Buddhist monk

3. How is Huneefa described?
(a) A blind temple servant
(b) A blind prostitute
(c) A deaf and mute prostitute
(d) A deaf and mute African

4. Who is Sahib's servant?
(a) A large, heavy African
(b) A young girl from Nepal
(c) A small, Hindu boy
(d) A young Irishman

5. What distresses Kim about the lama?
(a) The lama does not seem to care what happens to Kim
(b) The lama is dying
(c) The lama is doing fine without Kim
(d) That the lama will be traveling without Kim

6. Why does Kim think it is difficult to travel in northern India?
(a) The altitude
(b) Because of the cold, wet weather
(c) It is very swampy
(d) There are no real roads

7. What types of games do Sahib and his servant play with Kim?
(a) Learning to read the minds of strangers
(b) Self defense
(c) Mind games
(d) Chess and other white men's games

8. At what is Sahib a master?
(a) Understanding politics
(b) Disguise
(c) Reading the stars
(d) Understanding human nature

9. How does the lama travel with Kim?
(a) On his own feet
(b) On the train
(c) In a litter
(d) On a donkey

10. Where does Kim go to see the lama?
(a) Umballa
(b) Delhi
(c) Punjab
(d) Benares

11. How does Kim outsmart his watchdog?
(a) Kim pretends to be ill
(b) Kim procures a writer
(c) Kim pretends to be awed by the clerk
(d) Kim tricks the Chaplain into giving him an assignment

12. Why is the lama upset?
(a) That Kim left him alone with the spies
(b) That the lama lost his temper
(c) That Kim lied to the servants
(d) That Mookerjee is not really a fakir

13. Who comes to visit Kim?
(a) Mahbub Ali
(b) His grandfather
(c) Solud Mil
(d) The lama

14. Of what does Kim's friend Ali say Kim should take advantage?
(a) Knowing the ways of the East Indian culture
(b) The opportunity to go with the lama to a place where whites are not allowed
(c) The inattention of the troops as they prepare for war
(d) The privileges of being a white man

15. How does Huneefa disguise Kim?
(a) As a male prostitute
(b) As a young Hindu priest
(c) As a blind beggar
(d) As a young Buddhist priest

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lama think about Kim when he sees Kim transform the chain-man?

2. How does Kim feel when he finds the lama?

3. Into what does Kim transform one of the chain-men?

4. Where did Kim first encounter Colonel Creighton?

5. How is E23 disguised?

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