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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks questions of "Tomlinson" in heaven?
(a) St. Paul.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Matthew.

2. What is "The Masque of Plenty" written as?
(a) An opinion piece.
(b) A musical.
(c) A quatrain.
(d) A sonnet.

3. What are Kipling's poems based on according to "Prelude"?
(a) Everyday life.
(b) A fantastic realm.
(c) The British Court.
(d) His experience as a trade merchant.

4. Who are the main characters in "The Native Poem" ?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Russians.
(c) Englishmen.
(d) Sailors.

5. What is the name of the other character of "One Viceroy Resigns"?
(a) McMack
(b) Radcliff.
(c) Sutton.
(d) Landsowne.

6. What does Kipling say many Christians believe concerning those who worship Buddha in "Buddha at Kamakura"?
(a) That they are strange.
(b) That they are dangerous.
(c) That they are weak.
(d) That they are non-Christians.

7. What is the man in "The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief" use to stealing?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Cows.
(c) Goats.
(d) Steers.

8. What does the man in "The Ballad of the King's Jest" warn the King about?
(a) That his enemies are coming.
(b) That his wife is cheating on him.
(c) That his son will kill him.
(d) That his mother wants to see him.

9. Who is "Ode" dedicated to?
(a) Australians who died in war.
(b) Austria who died in war.
(c) Russia who died in war.
(d) England who died in war.

10. What does Kipling say of the son of the main character in "The 'Mary Gloster"?
(a) He love to gamble.
(b) He is good for nothing.
(c) He ignores his mother.
(d) He is loving.

11. Whose lives does "The Masque of Plenty" describe?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Sailors.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Shepherds

12. What does the man in "The Betrothed" choose over his fiancee?
(a) His mistress.
(b) His smoking habit.
(c) His dog.
(d) His career.

13. What is happening in"Three Sealers"?
(a) Three noblemen try to court the same woman.
(b) Three soldiers are fighting.
(c) Three vessels fight on the sea.
(d) Three children fight for a toy.

14. What is Kipling reflect on in "Our Lady of the Snows"?
(a) Canadian's recent elections.
(b) Canadian Preferential Tariff.
(c) Canadian recent contracts with the British navy.
(d) Canadian custom law.

15. Who does the old Queen ask the witnesses of the crowning to be?
(a) The Three Free Nations.
(b) The Five Contiguous Nations.
(c) The Five Free Nations.
(d) The Five Vasal Nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tricks the lady in "Delilah" into telling a secret she should not have told?

2. What did Kipling help the man learn about India?

3. What makes the character in "Gehazi" evidently dishonest?

4. Who is killed in the war the woman in the "Song of the Lathe" helps support?

5. What does the man in "The Galley-Slave" look back to at the start of the poem?

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