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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse did Yongden give why David-Neel did not eat or speak when they came upon the group that passed earlier later at lunch?
(a) She was honoring a holy day, unable to eat or talk until sunset.
(b) She was the wife of a magician and initiated in secret traditions.
(c) She was the widow of a magician who mourned his recent passing.
(d) She was the mother of a lama who mourned his recent passing.

2. In Chapter III, Yongden and David-Neel continued on toward Lhasa and used what as their story?
(a) They were returning from the Kha Karpo.
(b) They were returning from the Dokar Pass.
(c) They were returning from the frontier.
(d) They were returning from the Potala.

3. What was the term David-Neel used to describe the Tibetan prohibition of certain travelers?
(a) "Understandable."
(b) "Absurd."
(c) "Peculiar."
(d) "Disappointing."

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

5. When Yongden went into the village to make purchases for David-Neel and himself, what did the lama he met ask of him?
(a) To perform birth rites of an infant.
(b) To perform funeral rites.
(c) To condut a weddingceremony.
(d) To perform prayer rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yongden was continually stopped and asked to perform what type of rituals along their way?

2. At the start of Chapter II, David-Neel and Yongden traveled in more densely inhabited areas and through several villages at what time?

3. Outer regions felt animosity toward Tibet's government, so if better armed and organized it was feared they would not submit to the rule of what area?

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?

5. David-Neel and Yongden mistakenly loitered by an official's home and left in haste but were advised to return, so what did they quickly do?

(see the answer key)

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