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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which agency sent David-Neel on her 1910 expedition?
(a) The Ministry of Defense.
(b) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(c) The Ministry of Culture.
(d) The Ministry of Education.

2. 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 see.
(b) To keep animals away.
(c) To cook.
(d) To avoid pneumonia.

3. Yongden could stand the day after David-Neel returned, so she helped him down to the forest and found what about the path?
(a) It was nearly unmarked.
(b) It was only sporadically marked.
(c) It was fairly well marked.
(d) It was well marked.

4. While David-Neel and Yongden found protection from the weather around noon, they had but a little dried Tibetan grain food called what?
(a) Tsampa.
(b) Tshu lu ma.
(c) Star kha.
(d) Shing tog.

5. Yongden's success at "curing" the pilgrim's legs made him a bit of a what in the next village?
(a) Stooge.
(b) Celebrity.
(c) Nonentity.
(d) Obscurity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sudden, loud noise awakened David-Neel at the camp made after she and Yongden found the ridge marker and hiked down?

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

3. As Chapter V began, David-Neel and Yongden have convinced one of the shepherd peasants, known as what, to guide them to a pass?

4. Chapter I began as David-Neel and Yongden were about to enter into independent Tibet from which country?

5. On the unmapped path, David-Neel and Yongden risked running into bands of thieves who might kill them to keep what secret?

(see the answer key)

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