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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of visitors did David-Neel and Yongden wait for outside the Dalai Lama's traditional palace before they entered?
(a) Out-of-town New Year's celebrators.
(b) Traders.
(c) Pilgrims.
(d) Lamas.

2. What river did David-Neel and Yongden initially follow on their trek?
(a) The Indus.
(b) The Mekong.
(c) The Ba.
(d) The Arun.

3. The Introduction to My Journey to Lhasa provided the background for which of David-Neel's historic treks into remote Asia?
(a) Her 6th trek.
(b) Her 4th trek.
(c) Her 3rd trek.
(d) Her 5th trek.

4. 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 only sporadically marked.
(b) It was fairly well marked.
(c) It was well marked.
(d) It was nearly unmarked.

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

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 noted she was "a tiny precious child of" what city?

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. After being delayed in the one village, David-Neel remained at their camp outside another that night, and Yongden went inside to purchase what?

5. How did David-Neel and Yongden perceive a village they unexpectedly came upon following the blizzard different from other villages?

(see the answer key)

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