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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 they will all die trying to find it
(c) that it really does not exist
(d) that Buddhist monks are unlikely to murder them

2. What did Conway's friends and professors at Oxford expect of him?
(a) that he might become the PM of England
(b) that he would be a famous pianist
(c) that he might write a great novel
(d) that he would scale Mt. Everest

3. Where is the opening scene of the novel?
(a) a plane out of India
(b) a flight to Baskul, a town in Persia
(c) Tempelhof Airport near Berlin
(d) at Heathrow Airport in London

4. What do Green, Rutherford, and Tertius have in common?
(a) they are all novelists
(b) they are old school chums
(c) they are all traveling to Baskul
(d) they are British agents

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Conway described?

2. How long has it been since Rutherford last saw Conway?

3. Where were Rutherford and Conway traveling together?

4. Where is Conway pretty sure they have landed?

5. What does Sanders say happened that has never been explained?

(see the answer key)

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