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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chang say is the core of their belief in Shangri-La?
(a) abstenance
(b) charity
(c) moderation
(d) isolationism

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

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

5. When does the High Lama say the meek shall inherit the earth?
(a) once the strong devour each other
(b) when everyone learns about shangri-La
(c) after the next great war
(d) before the end of the earth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Mother superior say about Conway?

2. What is Miss Brinklow's interest in the valley?

3. What nourishment do they offer the four survivors?

4. What did Conway's friends and professors at Oxford expect of him?

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

(see the answer key)

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