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read this excerpt from rudyard kiplings novel kim in which kim responds to the lamas questions. then complete the sentences that follow.
\so they made the triple trial of strength against all comers. and at the test of the bow, our lord first breaking that which they gave him, called for such a bow as none might bend. thou knowest?\
\it is written. i have read.\
\and, overshooting all other marks, the arrow passed far and far beyond sight. at the last it fell; and, where it touched earth, there broke out a stream which presently became a river, whose nature, by our lords beneficence, and that merit he acquired ere he freed himself, is that whos bathes in it washes away all taint and speckle of sin.\
\if i knew, think you i would not cry it aloud?\
\by it one attains freedom from the wheel of things,\ the lama went on, unheeding. \the river of the arrow! think again! some little stream, maybe—dried in the heats? but the holy one would never so cheat an old man.\
\i do not know. i do not know.\
the lama is looking for \the river of the arrow\ because he thinks he will be purified spiritually when he finds it. the excerpt shows that
kim is under the lamas spell and eager to help him find the river
kim has no regard for the lama and does not listen to him
kim is eager to show the lama that he does not know where the river is located
kim thinks the lamas story is true and listens with interest so he can find the river himself

Explanation:

Answer:

he thinks he will be purified spiritually when he finds it
Kim thinks the lama's story is true and listens with interest so he can find the river himself