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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. The day after David-Neel and Yongden camped following their descent from the ridge marker, how did the terrain affect their trek?
(a) It was neither hard nor sandy, but its slope slowed them.
(b) It was rocky, and its slope greatly impeded them.
(c) It was sandy, and its slope greatly hindered them.
(d) It was neither hard nor sandy, and its slope aided them.

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

3. 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 patch of flowers.
(b) A pile of hay.
(c) A thatched shed.
(d) A thatched cottage.

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

5. David-Neel and Yongden eventually reached what type of marker placed at summits and passes to identify the path?
(a) Bod ja.
(b) Latza.
(c) Dril bu.
(d) Rku ba.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last village David-Neel and Yongden came upon in Chapter V, how did the villagers respond as they passed through?

2. David-Neel chose to head toward the mountain road in part because it had never been what?

3. 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?

4. What did a stranger attempt to bargain for when he saw David-Neel and Yongden's open packs as they ate breakfast one morning?

5. On the night David-Neel had returned to their shelter near the fence, she awoke and imagined she heard what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Given her hesitance due to its possible origin, how did David-Neel accept a piece of bread offered to her at the start of Chapter VI?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter IV, how did David-Neel describe a river that she and Yongden had to cross, but had missed a bridge over it earlier?

9. How did David-Neel describe Lhasa?

10. 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?

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