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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name Conway reads on his bathtub?
(a) Akron, Ohio
(b) Atlanta, Georgia
(c) Fresno, California
(d) Detroit, Michigan

4. Who makes up the inhabitants of the lamasery at Shangri-La?
(a) forty-two lamas from Tibet
(b) over two hundred Chinese
(c) fifty members of many races
(d) twenty-five men and women

5. 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

6. How is Conway described?
(a) as a wanderer who never finishes a job
(b) as a man with a vivid imagination
(c) as a lost soul always looking for answers
(d) as a Renaissance man who excels in everything

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

8. What is the condition of the pilot after the landing?
(a) hysterical
(b) unconscious
(c) tired
(d) angry

9. What do the men ask Miss Brinklow?
(a) if she minds if they smoke
(b) if she would like a drink
(c) if she needs to change seats
(d) if she is comfortable

10. What is Miss Brinklow's reaction to the situation?
(a) oddly open-minded
(b) sure that prayer will save them
(c) surprisingly noncommital
(d) alarmingly hysterical

11. Where were Rutherford and Conway traveling together?
(a) Siam
(b) Indonesia
(c) Honolulu
(d) Tokyo

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

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

14. As the survivors head out to find the lamasery, what do they see?
(a) four men carrying guns
(b) four men leading a llama
(c) four men waving a blue flag
(d) four men carrying a litter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the library contain?

2. Who does Chang say they can employ to lead them out of Shangri-La?

3. What does the Mother superior say about Conway?

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

5. What precaution do the Tibetans take for their safety?

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