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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Christians referred to in "Hadramauti"?
(a) As the only people that will go to heaven.
(b) As a kind people
(c) As spiteful, hateful people.
(d) As the best people.

2. What does the man in "The Ladies" think he learned everything there is to know about?
(a) Women.
(b) Upper society.
(c) The Army.
(d) Children.

3. What does Kipling advise his reader not to do in "The Comforters"?
(a) Give advice about money.
(b) Give advice when they have never been in that situation.
(c) Give advice when they are drunk.
(d) Give advice about love.

4. What can happen if one does not follow the rules according to "The Law of the Jungle"?
(a) He can be hurt.
(b) He can be expelled from paradise.
(c) He can lose his sanity.
(d) He can be killed.

5. What does the British soldier in "Mandalay" want to be sent back to?
(a) England.
(b) Away from combat.
(c) His farm.
(d) His wife.

6. What does Kipling say the world has enough of in "The Power of the Dog"?
(a) Men.
(b) Pain.
(c) Power.
(d) Cuddles.

7. What happens when St. Peter see Dinah react to the arrival of the person she was waiting for in "Dinah in Heaven"?
(a) Both are accepted in heaven.
(b) Dinah is sent to hell.
(c) They are both sent back to earth.
(d) Both are sent to hell.

8. What is the man in "Half-Ballade of Watervale" in charge of?
(a) Managing the release of prisoners.
(b) Guarding prisoners.
(c) Loading prisoners.
(d) Cooking for prisoners.

9. What is "Fox-Hunting" about?
(a) Fox hunting viewed from the forest's perspective.
(b) Fox hunting viewed from the hunter's perspective.
(c) Fox hunting viewed from the horse's perspective.
(d) Fox hunting viewed from the fox's perspective.

10. What is "A Counting-Out Song" about?
(a) A child's song.
(b) A marching song.
(c) A musical.
(d) A tavern song.

11. Whose trial is described in "Gallio's Song"?
(a) Ronald's.
(b) Paul's.
(c) Mark's.
(d) Joseph's.

12. What is "Gertrude's Prayer" about?
(a) Things lost that can never be gotten back.
(b) Things that make people happy.
(c) Things that must be ignored.
(d) Thing that cannot be bought.

13. What does the woman in "Old Mother Laidinwool" want to do?
(a) Return to life.
(b) Have a nice funeral.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Have a husband.

14. What does Kipling compare the determination of a woman to in "Sepulchral"?
(a) To that of a soldier.
(b) To that of God.
(c) To that of a man.
(d) To that of death.

15. What are the people in "Poor Honest Men because they are different?
(a) Christian.
(b) Persecuted.
(c) Poor.
(d) Misunderstood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the man in "The Prayer" speak about?

2. What does Kipling compare to the fall of the character in "The Four Angels" to?

3. What does Kipling think of the punishment of Cain in "Cain and Abel"?

4. What does Kipling make the case of sending young men back to after war?

5. What can a fistful of English dirt and the flowers of the land make a man feel like according to "The Charm"?

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