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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was it David-Neel managed to meet the Dalai Lama?
(a) Through her bribery.
(b) Through her persistence.
(c) Through her subterfuge.
(d) Through her double-dealing.

2. What was the task of the lama that Yongden met when he went into the village to make evening purchases for David-Neel and himself?
(a) He kept a shrine.
(b) He kept a cemetery.
(c) He kept a sacred garden.
(d) He kept a tabernacle.

3. What would David-Neel have faced if her true identity was discovered?
(a) Deportation.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) A fine.
(d) Execution.

4. While David-Neel was a guest of the lama, the instability within Tibet had driven out which nation?
(a) China.
(b) Bhutan.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Afghanistan.

5. David-Neel and Yongden hiked in descent from the marker they found until what time when they located a flat place to camp at?
(a) 10 p.m.
(b) 4 a.m.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) 12 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. At a river gorge in Tsawa, one crossed with what that was hung from a line secured to the sides of the ravine?

2. Militia members were issued guns inferior to those of the regular Tibetan soldiers who were all from within what area?

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

4. David-Neel and Yongden spent a night in the home of a wealth farmer who in exchange for his hospitality expected Yongden to bless what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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