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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Conway's advice to the group?
(a) that they play Bridge together
(b) that they work at getting along together
(c) that they all stay allert
(d) that they start meditating

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Conway the one to write SOS messages on scraps of paper?
(a) he is multilingual
(b) he has the only pen
(c) he has nothing else to do
(d) he is elected leader

10. How does Conway classify the land below?
(a) easy to signal aricraft flying over
(b) beautiful and interesting
(c) remote and inaccessable
(d) mesa land good for putting down a plane

11. 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

12. When they are in sight of the lamasery, what do they see?
(a) several pavilions as colorful as flowers
(b) people waiting to greet them
(c) thousands of lanterns
(d) an avalanche coming down Karakal

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

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

15. What is the subject of Green's book that Rutherford read?
(a) psychology
(b) phrenology
(c) neurology
(d) cosmology

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Rutherford and Conway traveling together?

2. When he wakes up, what does Conway see out his window?

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

4. Why are the British evacuating white residents from Baskul to Peshawar?

5. What does Conway do when he gets to the pilot?

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