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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 does Kim think it is difficult to travel in northern India?

2. Where does Mookerjee take Kim?

3. What is one skill attributed to Sahib?

4. How is E23 disguised?

5. What does the lama carry with him constantly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is set over to watch Kim, and how does the boy act?

2. What does Kim learn from Sahib and his servant boy?

3. Where is Kim sent at the beginning of Chapter 9 per Colonel Creighton's orders?

4. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

5. What does Mahbub Ali say to Kim when he comes to visit?

6. How do Kim and the lama react differently to being in the Northern lands?

7. Who is Hurree Chunder Mookerjee and what is Mookerjee's response to observing Kim's training?

8. How does Kim spend his next summer and then the Christmas holiday after that?

9. What crisis does Kim go through as he assumes the role of a spy?

10. Who has Mookerjee been stalking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an important part of what makes Kim interesting. Discuss the following:

Thoroughly discuss and analyze Kim. What are his strengths and weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he usually likable? Seldom likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the same criteria to thoroughly discuss and analyze Ali and Mookerjee.

Essay Topic 2

During their journey, the lama preaches to the soldier the virtues of maintaining detachment from worldly items, emotions, and actions in order to attain Enlightenment.

Discuss the idea of detachment as the lama explains it to Kim. How does the lama relate detachment to enlightenment when he talks to Kim about them? Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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