Following "Kim" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lahore

"Kim" is the story of an orphaned Irish boy in Lahore during the late 19th century. He grows up in the city, avoiding schoolmasters and missionaries, and learning the ins and outs of intrigue.

Answer: Buddhism

The lama was once abbot of a monastery in Tibet, but gave up his office to follow his quest to find the River of the Arrow, where he believed he would be cleansed from all sins and freed from the wheel of life.

Answer: the museum

The lama meets the curator of the Lahore Museum - the "Wonder House", and he and the curator talk about the Buddhist sculptures in the museum and about the lama's quest. Kim, fascinated by the lama, eavesdrops on their conversation. (Kipling based the character of the curator of the Lahore Museum on his father.)

Answer: Afghanistan

Kim did not know it then, but Mahbub Ali was an agent for the British Government. His job included delivering intelligence reports on the situation in Afghanistan, in the period between the second and third British-Afghan Wars.

Answer: a white stallion

The "pedigree of the white stallion" was actually an intelligence report about the activities of some of the Afghan kings, who were acting in ways contrary to the British interests. The report Kim delivered, which agreed with other intelligence reports already in hand, precipitated the third Afghan War.

Answer: The Grand Trunk Road

As they traveled along the Grand Trunk Road, Kim and the lama met with a widow from the hills near Kulu, the Sahiba, who was on her way to visit her son-in-law. She and her servants were Buddhists and took the lama and Kim with them on the road.

The Grand Trunk Road, was first built in the third century, BCE. As Kipling described it, it was "a wonderful spectacle ... a river of life that exists nowhere else in the world".

Answer: The lama paid for his schooling

The regiment they had stumbled upon was Kim's father's regiment, "The Mavericks". When they discovered who Kim was, they planned at first to send him to the Masonic Orphanage, but the lama insisted that he be sent to the best school available - St. Xavier's in Lucknow.

The chaplains were skeptical that this could be done, but the lama arranged to have the tuition paid, and so Kim entered St. Xavier's.

Answer: Simla

Lurgan Sahib is another of Col. Creighton's men. While Kim is with him, he learns how to disguise himself and act as people from many different castes and tribes. He also meets Hurrie Babu, a Bengali who is also part of Col. Creighton's service.

Answer: Benares

Kim rejoined the lama at a Jain temple in Benares (now Varanasi) Before he and the lama resumed the quest, he helped heal the son of a Punjabi farmer. Then as they rode on the train from Benares to Delhi, Kim encountered E-23, another of Creighton's men, who was fleeing for his life. To help him escape, Kim disguised E-23 who eluded his pursuers.

Answer: Himalaya

While they were staying with the Sahiba, Hurree Babu came to see Kim, and obtain his help in tracking two foreigners, one Russian, the other French, who were stirring up trouble in Afghanistan. After the foreigners struck the lama, their porters all ran away, taking with them the results of eight months of labor. Hurrie Babu led them to Simla, and ensured that the tale of their misadventures was spread throughout the border. Kim and the lama, meanwhile, went first to Shamleigh where Kim met the Woman of Shamleigh, Lispeth.

They then descended to Kulu to stay with the Sahiba again. Kim fell ill, and was nursed back to health, and the story ends after the lama has found his river and attained enlightenment.