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

2. How does the lama bless those he encounters?

3. Where does the Hindu money-lender keep his account-book?

4. Of what does Kim's father's estate consist when the father dies?

5. What does Chaplain Bennett think of as the "Scarlet Woman"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kim react to the farmer's curses, and what does the lama say to Kim about Kim's reaction?

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

3. Why is the lama travelling alone?

4. How does the railway clerk try to cheat the lama concerning the lama's ticket to Umballa, and who helps keep the Lama from being cheated?

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

6. What is the significance to Kim of the Red Bull?

7. What is the Grand Trunk Road?

8. What important news does Kim overhear as he lies in the bushes after delivering his message?

9. When and where does Kim take place?

10. Who comes by the home of the place where Kim and the lama are staying, and what ensues?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Kim. Are these universal symbols that would have the same meaning in any culture? What other symbols could portray the same idea? Why do you think Kipling chooses the symbols he does?

Essay Topic 2

Kim is taken out of school at the age of sixteen to be trained and join a spy network called the Great Game.

Do you think the men who took Kim out of school at sixteen to make him a spy were wrong to do this? Why or why not? Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action-driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven or action-driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Kim is? Explain your response.

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