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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chang say about the books of maps?
(a) they are kept locked up
(b) Shangri-La is not on them
(c) they are all in Chinese
(d) they do not have any

2. Where had the pilot told Conway they are?
(a) in Nepal near the chinese border
(b) in the Swiss Alps
(c) in Pakistan near Mr. Everest
(d) in Tibet near a place called Shangri-La

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

4. Who does Chang say they can employ to lead them out of Shangri-La?
(a) skiers who occasionally drop by
(b) some of the servants who want to leave
(c) the people who have not found enlightenment
(d) the porters who bring the regular consignment

5. When he wakes up, what does Conway see out his window?
(a) the lights of a runway
(b) the lights of a large city
(c) snow covered peaks and glaciers
(d) lightning in the clouds

6. As they talk about overpowering the pilot, what stops them?
(a) they cannot get the cockpit door open
(b) they don't know how much fuel is left in the plane
(c) he has a gun and none of them can fly a plane
(d) they reason that one or two of them would get killed

7. After leaving the airport, where do Rutherford and Green go?
(a) to Rutherford's hotel room
(b) to a Buddhist temple
(c) to the British Embassy
(d) to book a flight for Preshawar

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

9. What does Rutherford give Green?
(a) an invitation to explore in Tibet
(b) a recent photograph him and Conway
(c) a manuscript of Conway's story
(d) a letter from Conway

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

11. Who among the group says he will not be missed?
(a) Conway
(b) Mallinson
(c) Wayland
(d) Barnard

12. Late at night, what does the airplane encounter?
(a) German fighter planes
(b) severe lightning
(c) a clear, starry sky
(d) some turbulence

13. 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 strange Tibetan monk got on one plane
(d) a plane with three passengers disappeared

14. Who are the men dressed in sheepskins, fur hats and yak skin boots?
(a) Chinese
(b) Africans
(c) Europeans
(d) Tibetans

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man wearing in the hooded chair?

2. What do Conway and Mallinson try to do?

3. As they take off, what does Mallinson observe and mention to Conway?

4. What does Conway believe that causes him to lead the group to the lamasery the pilot told him about?

5. Why is Conway the one to write SOS messages on scraps of paper?

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