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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Captain Charles Mallinson's position?
(a) Governor of Punjab
(b) H.M. Vice-Consul
(c) RAF military attache
(d) Ambassador to Siam

2. Why is Conway unconcerned about when they will arrive in Preshawar?
(a) he doesn't have anyone to meet him there
(b) he thinks everything is all right
(c) he fears that war has broken out there
(d) he doesn't want to go there

3. On board the ship to Honolulu, what does Conway play on the piano?
(a) Irish folk songs
(b) all the old British and American balads
(c) lively pieces he says were written by Chopin
(d) what he remembers of Mozart

4. How does Conway get away from Rutherford in Honolulu?
(a) he joins the crew of a banana boat going south to Fiji
(b) he gets a job on a whaling ship out of Japan
(c) he stowes away on a ship returning to China
(d) he jumps ship and goes into hiding

5. What does Conway believe that causes him to lead the group to the lamasery the pilot told him about?
(a) that they will never find it
(b) that it really does not exist
(c) that they will all die trying to find it
(d) that Buddhist monks are unlikely to murder them

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Rutherford found Conway?

2. What does Mallinson believe when the plane takes off a second time?

3. When the plane lands to refuel, what do the passengers see out the window?

4. Where is the opening scene of the novel?

5. Late at night, what does the airplane encounter?

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