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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yongden only intended to give the pilgrim's legs some rest, but those accompanying the pilgrim faithfully believed what?
(a) The ritual might remedy a malady.
(b) The ritual might ease the discomfort.
(c) The ritual would cure an ailment.
(d) The ritual would remove the demon.

2. David-Neel and Yongden looked for a place to camp and saw a patch of yellow near their water source that turned out to be what?
(a) A thatched cottage.
(b) A pile of hay.
(c) A thatched shed.
(d) A patch of flowers.

3. As David-Neel and Yongden trekked toward a Po mountain path, they ran short of water, and what was their only source located far below?
(a) A well.
(b) A brook.
(c) A lake.
(d) A river.

4. David-Neel met a well-dressed man from the other direction one day so she moved to one side as a peasant, but what was his response?
(a) He removed his cap and gun and bowed.
(b) He got off his horse and saluted.
(c) He removed his cap and sword and waved.
(d) He removed his gun and sword and saluted.

5. With a flat place to camp below the ridge marker and the range, why did David-Neel and Yonggden find it essential to build a fire?
(a) To keep animals away.
(b) To avoid pneumonia.
(c) To cook.
(d) To see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title did the strange lama who came up to the pair's fire address David-Neel by?

2. David-Neel briefly related how many Lhasa religious leaders endured persecution by the Tibetan government over which nationality?

3. Once at the shrine, the pilgrims were instructed by Yongden to remain for how long, walking around it daily as they recited prayers?

4. The farmland was poor around the village David-Neel described in Po, heavily taxed, and anyone who left was pursued and what?

5. David-Neel chose to head toward the mountain road in part because it had never been what?

(see the answer key)

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