Reading Comprehension check for Kipling's "Mark of the Beast"
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
This is "The Mark of the Beast."
Your gods and my gods - do you or I know which are the stronger?
Only God will judge me.
"Look Out!" I screamed at him.
Gopher
Leper/Silver Man
Witchdoctor/Priest
Wild Dog
Cat
He can't eat vegetables anymore.
He becomes more and more like a wild beast.
He begins turning into a zombie.
He continuously rambles about ghosts.
He becomes a kleptomaniac.
Dumoise
The Priest/Witchdoctor
Stickland
The Silver Man/Leper
An English doctor
Sleep
Women
Dirt
Water
Raw Meat
External: British soldiers vs. people of India
Internal: Fleete vs. self (cleanliness vs. laziness)
External: Fleete vs. Hanuman/Hanuman's followers
External: Fleete vs. the narrator
Internal: Narrator vs. self (hit Fleete vs. don't hit Fleete)
The narrator & Stickland
Fleete
The Silver Man
Everyone
No one
When Fleete orders his dinner.
When the horses act nervous.
When Fleete says he wants to stay outside all night.
When the narrator hears the howl a wolf.
When Fleete tries to kill him.