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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Karamapa Lama.
(b) The Tenzin Lama.
(c) The Panchen Lama.
(d) The Dalai Lama.

2. Where were David-Neel and Yongden drifting off to sleep as Chapter IV came to an end?
(a) In the house of a well-off farm family.
(b) In a camp built near a mountain stream.
(c) In the barn of an abandoned farm.
(d) In the house of a mountain villager.

3. While David-Neel an Yongden had heard stories about the Popas all having been robbers and possibly cannibals, how did she describe them as having been?
(a) Cautious and curious.
(b) Concerned and vigilant.
(c) Uninterested and unconcerned.
(d) Friendly and hospitable.

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

5. David-Neel left the next morning for aid she might find for Yongden, but unsuccessful she returned that night with what that she had found?
(a) Nuts to add to their supply.
(b) Water to replenish their supply.
(c) Sticks to make a sprain splint.
(d) Fuel for a fire.

6. After their guide left and he and David-Neel hike through the pass, Yongden's chief concerns were snow and what else?
(a) Being disscovered.
(b) Their dwindling water supply.
(c) Their dwindling food supply.
(d) Possible bands of thieves.

7. What physical malady had David-Neel sustained the day after she followed the fence and found shelter?
(a) Walking pneumonia.
(b) Blisters and partially frozen toes.
(c) Completely frozen and blistered fingers.
(d) Frozen shoulder.

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

9. 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?
(a) Pointerd her pistol at the ground and yelled.
(b) Waved her pistol about over her head.
(c) Pointed her pistol at the strangers.
(d) Fired her pistol.

10. The farmland was poor around the village David-Neel described in Po, heavily taxed, and anyone who left was pursued and what?
(a) Jailed.
(b) Brought back.
(c) Executed.
(d) Whipped.

11. While Yongden's injury was not severe, why were he an David-Neel in a difficult situation beyond her inability to carry him far?
(a) They had little fuel and no food.
(b) He could not walk far and they had no food.
(c) They had little fuel and no water.
(d) They had no fuel and little food.

12. What was Yongden's reaction when David-Neel reluctantly removed the cap she wore to cover her brown hair?
(a) He easily kept from laughing fearing detection.
(b) He was unable to keep from laughing.
(c) He had no reaction either way.
(d) He could hardly keep from laughing.

13. What temple was the second most important place David-Neel wished to visit, as there she could view a statue of the Buddha that reportedly was from India?
(a) The Jo Sakya.
(b) The Nyingma.
(c) The Kagyu.
(d) The JTo Khang.

14. 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.

15. What title did the strange lama who came up to the pair's fire address David-Neel by?
(a) Gtsang.
(b) Rlung.
(c) Jetsunma.
(d) Skyes Dman.

Short Answer Questions

1. As David-Neel and Yongden moved along the mountain path, what did they learn about high passes from villagers they begged shelter from?

2. How was it David-Neel found the palace on the hill in Lhasa to appear from the exterior beyond enormous?

3. David-Neel and Yongden continued to trek along what river as they got ever nearer their goal?

4. It snowed again at night after Yongden limped all day, but David-Neel found a fence she followed to what type of structure with a shed?

5. David-Neel and Yongden walked through the pass after the guide left, and Yongden's fear that it would snow materialized when?

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