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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 say the lama always wants when the lama pulls out his beads?

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

3. What does a man who was illegally collecting bridge taxes affix to the bridge to convince travelers of the veracity of the tax?

4. Why does the farmer offer Kim and the lama milk and a meal?

5. Of whom does the lama take no notice on the train?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Kim known to his friends as Friend of All the World?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the farmer on the outskirts of Umballa first respond to Kim and the lama, and what changes the farmer's response?

9. When and where does Kim take place?

10. Why is the lama travelling alone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kim, now completely alone and having been schooled as a Sahib but then thrust into the world in the guise of a Buddhist priest, begins to question what his identity is and where he belongs.

Discuss, in depth, why Kim might be having an identity crisis about who he is and where he fits into the world. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Kim is an Irish boy whose father has passed away, and Kim been raised as an Indian by the owner of an opium den.

Discuss the differences between what happens to Kim, as an orphan in India in the late 1800’s and what would happen to Kim as an orphan in America in the present time. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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