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Kim
4 B – Although Kim was just a little
boy, adults often trusted him with
secret missions.
5 D – Although Kim has seen many
different kinds of people, he has
never seen anyone like the lama.
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Rudyard Kipling: the Poet
of the Empire
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2 F – He is generally considered one
of England’s greatest writers.
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4 F – Many Anglo-Indian families
sent their children back to
England.
5 F – He did very well at the United
Services College.
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8 F – He wrote for the rest of his
life.
Chapter One
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The text and beyond
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1 Kim’s father had given them to
him.
2 The god of 900 devils.
3 He would make Kim a better man
than his father was.
4 He delivered letters or spied for
different people.
5 He was tall and dressed in red. He
was kind and simple.
6 Tibet
7 Buddhism
8 The museum
9 How people begged: talking or
silent.
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1 E – Although the lama looked like
an old Chinese man, he was really
from Tibet.
2 C – Although he often wore Hindu
or Muslim clothing, Kim was
actually English.
3 F – Although the Wonderhouse is
a wonderful place, you do not have
to pay to go in.
Possible answer:
Dear Son,
Today I met a most extraordinary man,
a Tibetan lama. A lama in Tibet had
given him my name. Think of that! He
came all the way from Tibet to meet
me! Anyway, he was accompanied by a
little boy that I often see playing in
front of the museum – a clever little
boy! The lama was happy and surprised
and thrilled, just like a small child when
he saw the sculptures of the Lord
Buddha in the museum. He told me
that he is looking for a kind of sacred
river – the River of the Arrow. In this
river, he says, he will be able to wash
away all his sins. I felt very close to this
old man – so wise and yet so simple. I
would like to go with him on his
pilgrimage! I hope everything goes well
for him.
The Many Lives
of Buddhism
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1 B – He was born in a period of
change – economic, social and
religious.
2 B – Many of them are probably
legends.
3 A
4 B – He reached enlightenment
after 49 days of relaxed
meditation.
5 B – He thought people should try
his teachings and ideas for
themselves before accepting
them.
6 A
7 B – The Buddha’s teachings
arrived in other parts of Asia after
his death.
8 B – Europeans started studying
Buddhism in the early 1800s.
Chapter 2
The text and beyond
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What an incredible story!
Your father
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1 think 2 consider 3 used 4 most
5 speakers 6 which 7 all 8 than
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1 veranda 2 guru 3 loot 4 thugs
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Chapter Three
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from the hills too, like the lama
The text and beyond
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1 K – Kim and his friends were
playing on the Zam-Zammah
cannon when they saw a strange
man.
2 G – He told them that he was a
lama from Tibet.
3 D – Kim took him into the
museum.
4 J – Kim realised that the lama
was special: he told the truth.
5 L – He decided to go with him to
Benares.
6 B – Kim took the lama to sleep at
the Kashmir Serai.
7 E – Mahbub Ali offered Kim
money to take a message to
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8 F – Kim and the lama took the
train to Umballa.
9 I – Kim delivered the message to
the colonel.
10 H – Kim and the lama started
walking to Benares.
11 M – They stopped and checked
each river on the way.
12 A – They spent their first evening
in a small village.
13 C – Kim told everybody about the
great war that was coming.
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Chapter Four
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The old man.
Many hours.
He liked it very much.
When the sun went down –
at sunset.
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Chapter Five
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The text and beyond
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Possible answer:
I am a lama and I am the head of an
important monastery in Tibet. I am
an artist and a scholar. However, one
day I decided to leave my wealthy
monastery and search for the River
of the Arrow. I want to free myself of
sins before I die. Well, I came to the
city of Lahore to talk with a Sahib in
the House of Wonders. A young boy
directed me there, and then later he
decided to come with me and be my
chela, my disciple. I think this is a
kind of miracle. This boy’s name is
Kim and he too has a search: a Red
Bull on a Green Field. Today we found
it and we also discovered that Kim is
actually a Sahib. The Sahibs told him
that he could go to school. I know
how important knowledge is. So, I am
going to help him study. The Sahibs
told me that their school costs
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money. I will send Kim money for his
school then. After he has studied we
can continue my search for the River
of the Arrow and be free of sin
together.
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the symbol of the regiment
a god
the background of the flag
an area of grass
the Mavericks’ commanding officer
the colonel Mahbub knows
his father’s friends in the
regiment
8 evil spirits
9 men drinking to their regiment
10 Sahibs praying to a bull
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Chapter 6
The text and beyond
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1 public 2 fight 3 Much 4 unknown
5 region 6 important 7 fight
8 invention 9 period 10 powers
11 deaths
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1 Plains, hills and rivers are natural
geographical formations – roads
are built by people.
2 Offer is the only one not
necessarily associated with
money.
3 Bull is the only one not associated
with horses.
4 Mango is the only one that is not
usually associated with India.
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5 Symbol is the only one that is not
necessarily associated with
religion.
6 Orphanage is the only one not
necessarily associated with
students.
7 Stiff is the only one not
necessarily associated with the
army.
Chapter Seven
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1 He felt important. He was now a
Sahib.
2 He made his pupils become bigger
and smaller. He shone the light on
the masks.
3 Kim had already seen the trick and
the masks when he lived in Lahore.
4 He thought Lurgan Sahib liked
Kim better.
5 He dressed the same.
6 He spoke perfect Hindustani. His
English was different. He did not
make a big fuss about the little
boy trying to poison him.
7 He made the water jar move.
8 He tried to make Kim think that
pieces of the broken jar were
coming together.
9 He recited the multiplication
table in English and managed not
to see the illusion.
10 The little boy was better at the
game.
Open answers.
Varanasi – The City of
Temples, the City of Light
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1 About 3,000 years old.
2 Benares
3 He is an important Indian
musician who was born in
Varanasi.
4 About 1,000,000.
5 The two epic poems of the Hindu
religion.
6 To explain reincarnation: just as a
person changes clothing, so the
soul changes bodies.
7 The moral law of cause and effect:
if you do something bad you
produce bad results in this life or
your future lives, and the contrary
if you do good things.
8 They believe that it eliminates
negative karma and leads to
liberation.
9 The steps that lead down to the
Ganges where people bathe or
where bodies are cremated.
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on the map are: Pakistan,
Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh,
Nepal, Thailand
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Chapter 8
The text and beyond
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5 repaired 6 carelessly 7 distrust
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Chapter Nine
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The text and beyond
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Religion
temple lama reverend father hell
paradise
Money
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Army
officers regiment soldiers wars
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The Mughal Empire.
Around 1750.
The First Indian War of
Independence.
1947.
He said that it was caused by a
kind of madness.
To help the Indians by building
roads and schools, and by providing
modern government and medicine.
They were not happy with British
rule.
He didn’t like those Britons who
tried to govern India without
knowing very much about the
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1 Flynn’s character looks very
different, On the poster Mahbub
Ali is a young man while in the
novel he is old. (He dyed his beard
red to look younger.)
2 You can see Indians attacking a
building, Mahbub Ali holding a rifle
and a woman in Indian clothes.
3 The Mutiny and fighting seem to
be emphasised.
4 The new element is the young
woman, who does not appear in
the novel.
5 Open answer.
6 Open answer.
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1 a poor village 2 1893 3 land
4 music film 5 strange
6 sophisticated 7 your money
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A 10 – 1 Soul 2 stream 3 sin
B 6 – 4 Buddhists 5 holy 6 Wheel
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C 4 – 8 praying 9 servants
D 7 – 10 grabbed
E 9 – 11 meditated 12 fell
F 1 – 13 spy 14 devil
G 8 – 15 message
H 2 – 16 museum 17 disguises
I 3 – 18 mapmaking 19 road
J 5 – 20 mission 21 maps
After Reading
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1 Answer the following questions.
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2 Say whether the following questions are true (T) or false (F), and then
correct the false ones.
1 What did the people of Lahore call Kim?
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2 Why did the lama come to Lahore?
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1 When Kim first saw the lama, he thought he was Chinese.
3 Why did Mahbub Ali pay Kim?
4 Why did the old lady have such great respect for the lama?
2 Kim was very surprised that the lama told him the truth.
5 How did the old lady feel about Kim?
3 Kim was afraid when he learned that Mahbub’s message
signalled the beginning of a war.
6 How did the old lady use the lama’s knowledge for her everyday life?
4 The River of the Arrow was where the Buddha died.
7 What did Kim think when he saw the army officers standing around a
table with a gold bull in the middle?
5 Kim did not tell anybody the war he heard about in Umballa.
8 How did Kim fight Lurgan Sahib’s influence and not see the illusion?
6 The lama agreed to take the Grand Trunk Road because
it was the quickest road to Benares.
9 What was the most important thing that Kim had to study in order to
become a spy?
7 Father Victor was amazed that Kim was the son of a man
who had been a member of the Mavericks.
10 Why did Mookerjee have to go into the hills?
8 Kim liked his school and the other students.
11 How did the lama become spiritually sick?
9 Mookerjee liked to tell people that he was courageous.
12 Where was the River of the Arrow?
10 The hillmen treated the lama well because he looked rich.
11 The lama thought it was strange that a Sahib was his chela.
12 The lama did not think it was wrong to become angry with
the Russian.
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1 Little Friend of the World
2 He wanted to talk with the
director of the museum about his
search for the River of the Arrow.
3 He paid him to take a message to
Umballa about a rebellion against
the British.
4 Because she came from the same
hills where the lama came from.
5 She liked him because he was
amusing, intelligent and very
handsome.
6 She used his charms as medicine
to cure her grandchild who ate
too many mangoes.
7 He thought the gold bull was
some kind of a god and they were
praying to it.
8 He said the multiplication table in
English.
9 Mapmaking.
10 He had to see what a Russian spy
and a French spy were planning
with two northern kings against
the British.
11 He became angry at the Russian
who ripped his drawing.
12 Near the old lady’s house.
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3 F – He was very proud to be part
of such important things.
4 F – It was a river that washed
away all sins, and was created
when the Buddha’s arrow hit the
ground.
5 F – He told people in the village,
and he told Father Victor – he
liked feeling important.
6 F – He wanted to take it because
it crossed all the rivers in
northern India, and he wanted to
check each one to see if it was his
holy river.
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9 F – He told people that he was
always afraid.
10 F – They treated him well
because they too were Buddhists.
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12 F - He thought he had become
spiritually ill because he had
become angry.
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