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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the weather change on the climb to get to the lamasery?
(a) it gets colder and windier
(b) it gets warmer and sunnier
(c) it becomes very still and quiet
(d) it begins to fluctuate rapidly

2. Of the four in their group, what do all of them except Mallinson decide?
(a) they would like to escape as soon as possible
(b) they need to have more conversation among themselves
(c) they will become accustomed to the food
(d) they would like to stay in Shangri-La for awhile

3. What does Conway learn from Chang?
(a) that he is only 22 years old
(b) that he was kidnapped and brought to the lamasery
(c) that he will never become a lama
(d) that he spent the first five years as an ordinary man

4. Where do they decide they want to go?
(a) back to see the wreckage of the plane
(b) down into the populated valley below
(c) into the lamasery itslef
(d) up to the top of Karakal

5. How long is it before Conway sees the High Lama again?
(a) six months
(b) a year
(c) three days
(d) only a month

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Conway and the others?

2. What have the Tibetans used to measure Karakal?

3. What is special about the French lama, Alphonse Briac?

4. Why does Conway not get answers to some of his questions?

5. Who are the men dressed in sheepskins, fur hats and yak skin boots?

(see the answer key)

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