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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. What does the lama say he sometimes wonders about Kim?
(a) If Kim has a greater destiny
(b) If Kim's father is watching over Kim
(c) If Kim is a spirit or evil imp
(d) If Lord Krishna sent Kim to watch over the lama

2. Where is the best schooling a Sahib boy can get in India?
(a) Punjab Masonic Orphanage
(b) Military Orphanage
(c) St John's in Lucknow
(d) St. Xavier's in Partibus

3. According to a proverb Kim quotes, when should one not talk to a white man?
(a) When he is eying a woman
(b) When he is hungry
(c) When he is with his comrades
(d) When he is practicing sword patterns

4. What does Kim see walking in the distance when they are on the grazing ground?
(a) A dust storm
(b) A herd of wild elephants
(c) A group of Kurds
(d) Soldiers

5. Of what does Kim regale the children?
(a) Tales of Lahore and rail travel
(b) Of mystical appearances
(c) Of the British and their exploits
(d) Of the lama who commands the beasts of the field

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Kim given a four-anna silver piece by a soldier?

2. What animal does Kim say the constable's father-in-law is?

3. To where does Kim buy a train ticket for the lama?

4. What does the Commander-in-Chief say an upcoming military action is?

5. Who is quoted in the four-line epigraph to Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What agreement does Kim make with the lama in Chapter 1?

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

4. What is said about Kim at the opening of the novel?

5. What does the lama do when he and Kim enter the railway station?

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

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

8. What is Kimball O'Hara's connection to the Red Bull?

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

10. Why is the lama travelling alone?

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