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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Conway try to reason with Mallinson to accept that they have to wait for guides out of Shangri-La?
(a) Consuls are always sent to strange places
(b) the British will send out people looking for them
(c) it is a good chance just to relax
(d) when the plane is found they will be rescued

2. What surprises Conway and the others?
(a) the man speaks perfect English
(b) the man has brought bowls of hot soup
(c) the man communicates with sign language
(d) the man speaks to them in French

3. What is the man wearing in the hooded chair?
(a) a blue blanket
(b) a blue Chinese robe
(c) a fur coat
(d) a suit of armor

4. What is Karakal?
(a) the name of the nearest village
(b) the road to Shangri-La
(c) a Tibetan form of greeting
(d) a beautiful cone-shaped mountain

5. What does Conway know about the terrain below?
(a) nothing, because he's never been in these mountains
(b) the mountains there are more difficult than Mt. Everest
(c) that no one has ever returned from that aread
(d) the temperature is colder than the North Pole

6. What does Mallinson believe when the plane takes off a second time?
(a) that the plane is going to crash
(b) that they are being kidnapped
(c) that the pilot knows what he is doing
(d) that they are on the wrong plane

7. How does the plane eventually land?
(a) easily
(b) smoothly
(c) perfectly
(d) badly

8. How does the name of Conway come up in the conversation?
(a) Green asks if anyone has heard from him
(b) Tertius says he just got a letter from Conway
(c) Sanders says he saw him in Shanghai
(d) He was one of the passengers on the missing plane

9. What does Miss Brinklow have that surprises the men?
(a) a small pistol for self defence
(b) a deck of playing cards
(c) a package of cigarettes
(d) some brandy she gives the pilot

10. What do Conway and Mallinson try to do?
(a) make a plan to capture the pilot
(b) keep the others from knowing
(c) devise a survival plan
(d) figure out where the plane is

11. What have the Tibetans used to measure Karakal?
(a) long ropes
(b) trigonometry
(c) extra sensory perception
(d) psychology

12. Who is Miss Roberta Brinklow?
(a) a missionary with the L.M.S. or London Missionary Service
(b) an RAF nurse assigned to India
(c) a foreign newspaper correspondent
(d) a secretary to Captain Charles Mallinson

13. How often does Chang say visitors come to Shangri-La?
(a) never
(b) every year
(c) often
(d) rarely

14. How does Conway see Chang?
(a) as a typical Chinese
(b) as a person of high intelligence
(c) as a cruel captor
(d) as a man of mystery

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rutherford say he read Green's book?

2. What does the Mother superior say about Conway?

3. What is surprising about the facilities at Shangri-La?

4. Who among the group says he will not be missed?

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

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