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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. What does Kim hold as he is belly-crawling towards the mess tent?

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

3. What is the time frame of the setting?

4. What does the lama call the railway station as he looks at its layout?

5. What do the natives call the Lahore Museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When and where does Kim take place?

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

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

6. Where does Kim first go when he gets the Lama situated for the night?

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

8. Who does Chaplain Bennett ask for help to question Kim, and what do they discover?

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

10. What do Kim and the lama do at the end of Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Since he was a young child, Kim had been told by his guardian that his father, a former soldier, had said that a red bull in a green field would be Kim's salvation.

Research the term narrative contrivance and explain why Kim seeing the red bull flag is or is not a narrative contrivance. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about what they know, and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Rudyard Kipling. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Kipling's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Kipling's probable agenda concerning that idea.

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