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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. With whom does the money-lender say train passengers sit?
(a) Persons of all castes
(b) Angels
(c) Mongrels and geese
(d) Thieves

2. What did Chaplain Bennett do to prove his mettle?
(a) Rode a wild stallion
(b) Threw a large boulder
(c) Raised a mess tent alone
(d) Marched all day with the troops

3. What do Kim and the lama encounter at the end of Chapter 2 as they are walking towards a stream?
(a) A red bull
(b) A battalion of British infantrymen
(c) A cripple
(d) A pack of dogs

4. Who is quoted in the four-line epigraph to Chapter 2?
(a) Ming Tze
(b) Buddha
(c) Lao-Tse
(d) Han Chou

5. What garb does Kim slip into when conducting certain types of business
(a) Military
(b) European
(c) American
(d) Hindu or Mohmmedan

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of an Amritzar woman sitting near the window on the train?

2. What is Kim's nickname?

3. From where is the old man who Kim talks to outside the Lahore Museum?

4. Who tries to reassure the lama about boarding the train?

5. What does the lama do as he and Kim walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the cultivator and his wife going to Umballa and what do they offer to Kim and the Lama?

2. What does Kim do when he sees the Red Bull, and what happens?

3. What happens when Kim and the lama approach Umballa?

4. What does the lama lecture the soldier about and how does the soldier point out an inconsistency in the lama?

5. How does Kim play a prank on his hosts that night in Umballa?

6. What is the Grand Trunk Road?

7. Why is the lama travelling alone?

8. What does the lama believe about the Holy River?

9. Why do the two clergymen not allow Kim to go back and serve the lama?

10. What does Kim come upon while resting along the Grand Trunk Road?

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