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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The morning after David-Neel's encounter with a well-dressed man, she lost and frantically looked for what before she found it?
(a) Her small compass.
(b) Her cups.
(c) Her forks and spoons.
(d) Her plates.

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

3. Yongden told David-Neel he thought the well-dressed man saw she was a lama and so saluted her, but she began to wonder what?
(a) If he had not become suspicious after he thought about it.
(b) If he might not report his suspicions to local authorities.
(c) If he had not recognized her from a previous trip.
(d) If he had not recognized her as a Westerner.

4. David-Neel described a stew prepared from what that she found disgusting but had to eat a bit of to avoid suspicion?
(a) Unskinned fishes.
(b) Organs of animals.
(c) Venomous snakes.
(d) Scorpions and worms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. David-Neel and Yongden were unable to travel at night when they came into more inhabited country for what reason?

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

3. One night David-Neel and Yongden slept outside a village to pass through early the next day to avoid attention, but what happened?

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 acted like she wished to learn locations from her host so she could beg from them, but what did she actually seek to determine?

(see the answer key)

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