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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Conway get away from Rutherford in Honolulu?
(a) he jumps ship and goes into hiding
(b) he joins the crew of a banana boat going south to Fiji
(c) he gets a job on a whaling ship out of Japan
(d) he stowes away on a ship returning to China

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

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

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

11. What mountain range does Conway think might be below them?
(a) they might be the Karakorams
(b) they might be the Andes
(c) they might be the Alps
(d) they might be the Rockies

12. If they cannot have guides out of the mountain, what does Mallinson demand next?
(a) a map
(b) yaks to ride out of the place
(c) a signal fire for passing planes
(d) a radio transmitter

13. On a walk, what does Conway overhear about how they were brought to Shangri-La?
(a) the pilot Talu who was killed had gone for them on purpose
(b) they were brought here to be held for ransom
(c) the pilot Talu had not known they were on the plane
(d) they were brought here to tell the world about Shangri-La

14. What does the pilot do when he regains consciousness?
(a) he tries to find his pistol
(b) he speaks to Conway just before he dies
(c) he jumps up and runs away
(d) he holds a knife to Miss Brinklow's throat

15. Where had Rutherford found Conway?
(a) a monastery in Shanghai
(b) a tenement in Peking
(c) an abbey in Hong Kong
(d) a hospital in Chung-Kiang

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mallinson insist on?

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

3. What do Mallinson and Miss Brinklow conclude about the pilot?

4. How does Conway classify the land below?

5. What do Barnard and Mallinson begin to think about?

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