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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. How were these roads across Po described to David-Neel and Yongden?
(a) One was well-traveled, the other unmapped.
(b) Four were well-traveled, the other unmapped.
(c) Three were well-traveled, the other unmapped.
(d) Two were well-traveled, the other unmapped.

2. 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 small compass and the tent.
(b) The needles and the small compass.
(c) The common spoons and the needles.
(d) The tent and the common spoons.

3. 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) An am chi.
(b) A skur srung ba.
(c) A dokpa.
(d) A ma chen.

4. When the lean-to failed, David-Neel and Yongden went on until noon when they found what to keep reasonably warm in?
(a) An empty summer cabin.
(b) An empty summer barn.
(c) An abandoned camp.
(d) An earthen cave

5. Why was David-Neel confident by the start of Chapter VI that her disguise would not be questioned?
(a) She felt nobody would suspect a foreigner was so far into Tibet.
(b) She could always use Tibetans' fears of magic to hide herself.
(c) She felt Yongden could keep her hidden if all else failed.
(d) She had managed to hide herself thus far and could continue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the living arrangements in the small home where David-Neel rented a room while in Lhasa?

2. As they hiked toward the mountain top but could not see the pass, David-Neel and Yongden made what decision?

3. At the start of Chapter IV, David-Neel and Yongden approached the region known as Po with how many roads across it?

4. 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?

5. The armed robbers returned the money and begged David-Neel not to curse them anymore out of fear when Yongden told them she was a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did David-Neel depict the manner in which she and Yongden crossed the last river that separated them from Lhasa?

2. How did David-Neel describe the manner in which Asians approached respecting others who slept?

3. Why did David-Neel describe it as "a happy inspiration" when she chose the start of the year for her stay in Lhasa?

4. How did David-Neel describe what the Tibetans had lost in their separation from China?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. On the day David-Neel and Yongden left the earthen cave and Yongden stumbled on his improvised crutch past dark, how did they make their way into the structures David-Neel came upon by following a fence in the deep snow?

8. How did David-Neel describe a typical bridge found in remote regions of Tibet?

9. Why was it David-Neel went to the rescue of a dog?

10. How did David-Neel describe Tibetan beds?

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