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“Gunga Din”
by Rudyard Kipling, pages 76-78
Vocabulary
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1. Who is the speaker of the poem?
2. What is Gunga Din’s job? How do the others treat him?
3. Throughout the poem, the speaker employs the use of military terms and regional language.
What is the term for such use of non-standard English?
4. What does the speaker mean when he says, on line forty-five, “An’ for all ‘is dirty ‘ide/ ‘E
was white, clear white, inside/ When ‘e went to tend the wounded under fire.”
5. In your own words, describe what amazed the speaker about Gunga Din.
6. Why does the speaker retort, “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!” at the poem’s
conclusion?
7. What is the tragic end of Gunga Din?
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