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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fired her pistol.
(c) Waved her pistol about over her head.
(d) Pointed her pistol at the strangers.

2. 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 water.
(b) He could not walk far and they had no food.
(c) They had little fuel and no food.
(d) They had no fuel and little food.

3. What were the living arrangements in the small home where David-Neel rented a room while in Lhasa?
(a) The owner lived in one room and rented two.
(b) The owner lived in two rooms and rented one.
(c) The owner rented all three rooms.
(d) The owner lived in two rooms and rented two.

4. The palace in Lhasa was full of beautifully decorated rooms, mostly the work of skilled artists from what country?
(a) Nepal.
(b) China.
(c) Bhutan.
(d) Tibet.

5. 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 the house of a mountain villager.
(c) In a camp built near a mountain stream.
(d) In the barn of an abandoned farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. The farmland was poor around the village David-Neel described in Po, heavily taxed, and anyone who left was pursued and what?

2. 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?

3. Yongden could stand the day after David-Neel returned, so she helped him down to the forest and found what about the path?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As she was unable to return before dark, how did David-Neel find the cave Yongden had remained in after is injury?

2. How did Yongden depart the monastery where he met a monk who came from the region where Yongden's great-grandfather had been a lama?

3. As she waited for Yongden outside a monastery, David-Neel took up the offer of a passing woman she met to spend the night at her home and was later particularly impressed for what reason?

4. What trap did David-Neel and Yongden set for their safety against potential robbers in a hut one night?

5. How did David-Neel describe Lhasa?

6. David-Neel was unable to find anyone to aid Yongden after his injury, but she managed to return with what?

7. How did David-Neel depict the temperature as she and Yongden embarked at the beginning of Chapter V?

8. Why was it a cowman and his wife sought Yongden to perform rites for their dead son?

9. What appeal did Yongden make to David-Neel when she reached the candlelit cave after she unsuccessfully sought aid for him?

10. How did their encounter go with the first individuals David-Neel and Yongden came upon after they crossed the pass and Yongden had sustained his injury?

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