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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 4, which two individuals parts company in Nepal?
(a) Matthiessen and Schaller.
(b) Dawa and Tukten.
(c) Jang-bu and the Lama.
(d) Deborah and Alex.

2. What does Schaller feel the snow leopard is doing while they are tracking the animal?
(a) Planning to attack them.
(b) Watching them.
(c) Getting above them.
(d) Sleeping.

3. Who loses alacrity and becomes clumsy while Matthiessen gets lighter on his feet?
(a) Schaller.
(b) Tukten.
(c) Gyaltsen.
(d) Dawa.

4. What area is closed to foreigners as a result of the fighting occurring in Nepal?
(a) Kang Pass.
(b) Shey.
(c) Land of Dolpo.
(d) Black Canyon.

5. How long is Matthiessen's group forced to stay inside the monastery in their tents?
(a) Seven hours.
(b) Twelve hours a day.
(c) Eighteen weeks.
(d) Five days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Matthiessen wait for but only arrives later at nightfall at their temporary campsite in Part 4?

2. Why is the inspection by the police done so quickly in Jumla?

3. Matthiessen describes seeing a rare blue sheep called ____________.

4. How many snow leopards are supposed to be in the area that Schaller is traveling through?

5. Matthiessen is very surprised to see that _____________cannot catch the blue sheep that they chase.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the uncomfortable discovery that Matthiessen makes during his descent down the mountain range from Murwa?

2. What kind of sleeping arrangements can Matthiessen, Schaller, and the rest of their group find at the monastery?

3. When Matthiessen goes to the city of Patan, whom does he see and how does he feel?

4. What does Schaller wonder about the juvenile sheep that he sees outside the monastery?

5. While Schaller is happy watching the blue sheep near the monastery, what does Matthiessen get concerned about and why?

6. What is the animal that Matthiessen and Schaller think that they have found outside the monastery?

7. What does Matthiessen share from the letters he receives from Schaller dated December 8th and 9th in the last part of the book?

8. What is the rare event concerning the bharal that Schaller is delighted to see outside the monastery?

9. When the sherpas say that there is another trail east of the Shey Pass but the group does not have a permit, what does Schaller suggest?

10. When Jang-bu and another sherpa go in search of firewood, where do Matthiessen and Schaller wander and what do they find?

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