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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. David-Neel and a boarder's wife became embroiled in a domestic fight when they aided the wife of their drunkard host, a matter that ended with David-Neel being informed she would have to do what?
(a) Testify for the drunkard host's wife.
(b) Testify for the boarder's wife.
(c) Find another place to stay.
(d) Testify for both wives.

3. The stranger supposedly went to get his cheese, but he quickly came back with another man and they began to barter for what?
(a) The needles and the small compass.
(b) The tent and the common spoons.
(c) The common spoons and the needles.
(d) The small compass and the tent.

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

5. Many pilgrims had arrived in Lhasa for the New Year celebrations, so how long was it until David-Neel obtained a place to stay?
(a) Well past dark on the second day.
(b) The better part of the first day.
(c) Almost immediately on the first day.
(d) Late in the afternoon on the second day.

6. Using her pistol would not scare these armed robbers who would shoot back, so instead David-Neel did what?
(a) She cried out upon various terrible Tibetan deities to curse the men.
(b) She called out that it was disgraceful for the men to rob a lama.
(c) She yelled out that it was unforgiveable for the men to rob a lama.
(d) She pleaded with the men who would take the last money of a lama.

7. As they hiked toward the mountain top but could not see the pass, David-Neel and Yongden made what decision?
(a) To turn westward.
(b) To descend eastward.
(c) To go straight ahead.
(d) To ascend eastward.

8. David-Neel and Yongden looked for a place to camp and saw a patch of yellow near their water source that turned out to be what?
(a) A pile of hay.
(b) A thatched shed.
(c) A patch of flowers.
(d) A thatched cottage.

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

10. As Chapter V began, David-Neel and Yongden have convinced one of the shepherd peasants, known as what, to guide them to a pass?
(a) A skur srung ba.
(b) A ma chen.
(c) A dokpa.
(d) An am chi.

11. As David-Neel and Yongden moved along the mountain path, what did they learn about high passes from villagers they begged shelter from?
(a) One was definitely closed.
(b) All were probably open.
(c) All were probably closed,
(d) One was probably closed.

12. David-Neel and Yongden agreed to trade what in exchange for cheese the stranger who spied their open packs had?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Tea.
(c) Needles.
(d) Two spoons.

13. Part of David-Neel's hair was still darkened with black ink when she took off her cap at the palace, and she had false black braids made from what animal?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A dog.
(c) A goat.
(d) A yak.

14. Afraid the two strangers David-Neel ran off might return with support, she and Yongden quickly packed up and fled and were fortunate to find a group of what with which they could safely travel?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Pilgrims.
(c) Ponpos.
(d) Philings.

15. On the unmapped path, David-Neel and Yongden risked running into bands of thieves who might kill them to keep what secret?
(a) Their identities.
(b) Their methods.
(c) Their stolen goods.
(d) Their hiding places.

Short Answer Questions

1. This pageant, described at the end of Chapter VII, was a grand procession that included trumpets, some of which were how many feet long and borne on the shoulders of several men?

2. At the village where the pair replenished their provisions following their encounter with the strange lama, what did Yongden replace?

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

4. 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?

5. In the latter half of Chapter VI, David-Neel detailed that she learned that which friend had been forced out of his palace and into exile?

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