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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the American attempt to do?
(a) unlock the cockpit door
(b) open the door to jump out
(c) find a weapon in the plane
(d) make jokes about their situation

2. When the plane lands to refuel, what do the passengers see out the window?
(a) gasoline trucks
(b) black figures moving about
(c) a desolate frontier
(d) only runway lights

3. Who is the mystery man on board the plane?
(a) Hugh Conway
(b) Charles Mallinson
(c) Henry D. Barnard, an American
(d) Wyland Sanders

4. What does Sanders say happened that has never been explained?
(a) it snowed in Baskul the day the planes left
(b) one of the planes could not get off the ground
(c) a plane with three passengers disappeared
(d) a strange Tibetan monk got on one plane

5. What do the men ask Miss Brinklow?
(a) if she minds if they smoke
(b) if she is comfortable
(c) if she would like a drink
(d) if she needs to change seats

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of Green's book that Rutherford read?

2. How does the name of Conway come up in the conversation?

3. Where had Rutherford found Conway?

4. Where is the opening scene of the novel?

5. On board the ship to Honolulu, what does Conway play on the piano?

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