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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they have to do to get to the lamasery?
(a) use Conway's compass
(b) put on more clothes
(c) go around the mountains
(d) climb the mountains

2. What has Chang seen when people try to leave Shangri-La?
(a) they die at the border
(b) they have fatal accidents
(c) they suddenly show their true age
(d) they cannot exist in the outside world

3. What precaution do the Tibetans take for their safety?
(a) put them in back
(b) tie them together with ropes
(c) warn them to be very quiet
(d) light signal fires along the way

4. What have the Tibetans used to measure Karakal?
(a) extra sensory perception
(b) psychology
(c) trigonometry
(d) long ropes

5. Why do they not talk much on the way to the lamasery?
(a) because they are too far apart
(b) because they are too excited
(c) because they are plotting an escape
(d) because of the thin air at that altitude

Short Answer Questions

1. What nourishment do they offer the four survivors?

2. As the survivors head out to find the lamasery, what do they see?

3. Who does Conway meet during the next week after his visit to the High Lama?

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

5. What does Briac possess that he shares with Conway?

(see the answer key)

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