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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did David-Neel study as a young woman?
(a) Oriental philosophy and comparative religion.
(b) Oriental history and Buddhism.
(c) Middle Eastern philosophy and comparative religion.
(d) Asian history and comparative religion.

2. Why was David-Neel confident by the start of Chapter VI that her disguise would not be questioned?
(a) She felt nobody would suspect a foreigner was so far into Tibet.
(b) She had managed to hide herself thus far and could continue.
(c) She felt Yongden could keep her hidden if all else failed.
(d) She could always use Tibetans' fears of magic to hide herself.

3. Whom did David-Neel identify as having carried a concealed revolver on the journey to Lhasa?
(a) Only David-Neel.
(b) Both herself and Yongden.
(c) Only Yongden.
(d) Neither David-Neel or Yongden.

4. As David-Neel and Yongden progressed into Tibet, they were stopped by officials who briefly questioned and then detained them when?
(a) Always.
(b) Never.
(c) Infrequently.
(d) Frequently.

5. David-Neel was alarmed when a villager who stopped to share food noticed her pale hands and remarked they were like what?
(a) The moon.
(b) Fresh snow.
(c) A philing's.
(d) A white flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the living arrangements in the small home where David-Neel rented a room while in Lhasa?

2. What did a stranger attempt to bargain for when he saw David-Neel and Yongden's open packs as they ate breakfast one morning?

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

4. David-Neel and a boarder's wife became embroiled in a domestic fight when they aided the wife of their drunkard host, a matter that ended with David-Neel being informed she would have to do what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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