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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yongden was stopped by a pilgrim group who sought his aid for which of their members whose legs they believed hurt due to a demon?
(a) A girl.
(b) A man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A boy.

2. David-Neel and Yongden had a narrow escape when he was stopped by armed robbers on the path ahead of her when they took how many rupes and began to open his pack?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

3. What sudden, loud noise awakened David-Neel at the camp made after she and Yongden found the ridge marker and hiked down?
(a) Close thunder had rumbled through the valley.
(b) Yongden had fired a shot to scare away a wolf.
(c) A Tibetan hunter had fired his gun not far off.
(d) Melting ice on a nearby river had cracked.

4. At the shrine, the ill pilgrim was to be fed well, and his legs were to be rubbed with hot water containing some what that Yongden offered?
(a) Holy pebbles.
(b) Holy sand.
(c) Holy spices.
(d) Holy leaves.

5. David-Neel and Yongden had stopped where to eat one day when a wealthy woman traveling by horse also stopped and questioned them?
(a) By a pond near the path.
(b) In a cave near the path.
(c) Under a tree near the path.
(d) By a stream near the path.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yongden was what type of lama widely recognized as having the ability to tell fortunes and perform exorcisms and other mystic rites?

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

3. Tibetan superstition considered it bad luck to pick up what that has fallen to the ground while on a journey?

4. Yongden cast what in the air to catch and consult prophets before he told the pilgrims that ahead they would come across a roadside shrine?

5. David-Neel and Yongden stopped in what village where she described the political situation for the people of the region?

(see the answer key)

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