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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What god is the man being spoken about in "The Prayer" pray to?
(a) The Muslim god.
(b) The Heathen god.
(c) The Indian god.
(d) The Jewish god.

2. What does Kipling say does not change much in "A Truthful Song"?
(a) Human beings.
(b) War
(c) Common jobs.
(d) Monarchy.

3. Why should people not give advice to others according to Kipling in "The Comforters"?
(a) If they are mad at them.
(b) If they have not been in the same position.
(c) If they want the person to learn from their mistakes.
(d) If they think they are better than the other person.

4. Why does the man in "Half-Ballade of Watervale" understand them?
(a) His brother was a prisoner.
(b) He was once a political prisoner.
(c) He was captured during the war.
(d) He escaped from prison.

5. What happens to the seven cities in "The Song of Seven Cities" ?
(a) They were destroyed.
(b) They were flooded.
(c) They were abandoned.
(d) They were conquered.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is "Gertrude's Prayer" about?

3. Whose fall does "The Four Angels" speak about?

4. What does the man in "The Dying Chauffeur" compare his heart to?

5. What does the man in "Back to the Army Again" pretend not to have in order to get off the streets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kipling urge in "A Preface"?

2. What sounds does Kipling write about in "The Way Through the Woods"?

3. What does Kipling advise his reader of in "The Comforters"?

4. What does Kipling record in "Cain and Abel"?

5. What does "The Nurses" speak of?

6. What does "The Survival" speak of the passing of?

7. What does "The Runes of Weland's Sword" tell of a sword?

8. What does a smuggler tell his wife in "A Smuggler's Song"?

9. What does "Back to the Army Again" detail?

10. What does "The Prayer" speak of?

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