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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did David-Neel and Yongden perceive a village they unexpectedly came upon following the blizzard different from other villages?
(a) It was like a quasi-industrial setting with small mills and factories.
(b) It was like a small city with villas, parks, and palaces.
(c) It was like a small town with outlying farms and cottages.
(d) It was like a small city with modern buildings and outlying cottages.

2. What did the wealthy woman traveling by horse and with several servants question David-Neel and Yongden about?
(a) Whether they were Dokpas.
(b) Whether they were Gompchen.
(c) Whether they were Philings.
(d) Whether they were Ladki.

3. As a lama might, what did David-Neel do before this well-dressed man who greeted her and moved on without a word?
(a) She laid her hand on his right shoulder.
(b) She laid her hand on his arm.
(c) She laid her hand on his left shoulder.
(d) She laid her hand on his head.

4. Yongden and David-Neel left Tibet headed for which British-controlled region?
(a) Bhutan.
(b) India.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Nepal.

5. David-Neel was delighted to be taken as a native, even when a policeman took what action when she tried to enter an area that was off limits to peasants?
(a) He struck her.
(b) He scolded her.
(c) He cited her.
(d) He ejected her.

Short Answer Questions

1. David-Neel chose to head toward the mountain road in part because it had never been what?

2. David-Neel and Yongden built a lean-to to protect against the snow, but she awoke and found what?

3. How did David-Neel refer to the boarding husband whose assisting wife was injured?

4. As one of the two strangers bartered for items belonging to David-Neel and Yongden, the man kept looking back to the path as if he expected others to help rob them, so David-Neel did what?

5. As David-Neel and Yongden trekked toward a Po mountain path, they ran short of water, and what was their only source located far below?

(see the answer key)

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