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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 is Sahib's occupation?

2. What does Mookerjee offer the two spies?

3. At what is Sahib a master?

4. With what does the lama threaten one of the spies?

5. With whom do the British believe the regions on the northern border of British India are allying themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artwork does the lama show Kim?

2. What is the lama's feelings about his reaction to his ripped artwork?

3. How does Mookerjee trick the Russian and French spies?

4. Where does Mookerjee take Kim, and what does the man give Kim?

5. What does the lama think about Kim's transformation of E23?

6. Who does Kim encounter on the train?

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

8. Why is Kim taken to see Huneefa when Kim is sixteen?

9. What is the main purpose for the spies the British have recruited?

10. How does Kim get a letter off to Mahbub Ali?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Kim is put under watch of a drummer boy, who, having been born and raised in England, holds Kim and everything having to do with India in contempt, and subjects Kim to verbal and physical abuses.

Discuss prejudice and the way it relates to Kim’s life and the life of the people of India in the late 1800’s. Use examples from Kim to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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