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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. 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 Nyingma.
(b) The Kagyu.
(c) The JTo Khang.
(d) The Jo Sakya.

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?
(a) A large occupied house.
(b) A small empty house.
(c) A small occupied house.
(d) A large empty house.

3. David-Neel chose to head toward the mountain road in part because it had never been what?
(a) Explored by Westerners.
(b) Seen by a Western woman.
(c) Seen by Chinese.
(d) Charted.

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

5. At the start of Chapter IV, David-Neel and Yongden approached the region known as Po with how many roads across it?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer 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?

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

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. David-Neel and Yongden hiked in descent from the marker they found until what time when they located a flat place to camp at?

5. On the unmapped path, David-Neel and Yongden risked running into bands of thieves who might kill them to keep what secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did David-Neel describe Tibetan beds?

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

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

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

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

6. What did David-Neel note about the maps of Tibet that she carried?

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

8. 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?

9. How was it David-Neel initially described the palace in Lhasa?

10. In Chapter VI, why did Yongden stay for a long time inside a monastery while David-Neel remained outside?

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