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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Brinklow decide to do?
(a) set off on foot by herself
(b) learn the Tibetan language
(c) start a Christian church in the valley
(d) write a book about Shangri-La

2. Why does Miss Brinklow decide she wants to stay?
(a) to get married and have children
(b) to avoid the war she is sure is coming
(c) to start a mission
(d) to become a female lama

3. What is the High Lama like?
(a) a young man, almost a child
(b) a man of average height and age
(c) a wizened old man who speaks perfect English
(d) a tall, stout man in a white robe

4. What ideas do the lamas have that Miss Brinklow is opposed to?
(a) broadmindedness and moderation
(b) free love and excesses
(c) drinking and gambling
(d) nirvana and experience

5. What disturbs Mallinson after the porters come and go without taking him with them?
(a) Blue Moon men are the ones who go for their supplies
(b) He will have to wait nine months for the next ones
(c) No porters will ever agree to take him away
(d) There really are no porters

6. What happens at breakfast the morning after Conway visits the High Lama?
(a) the others all have questions about the meeting
(b) the others show Conway deep respect
(c) the others will not speak to Conway
(d) Conway's breakfast is served in his room

7. What does Conway next discover about Mallinson?
(a) He is interested in Lo-Tsen
(b) He has deicded he wants to stay
(c) He wants to become a lama
(d) He has been stealing artifacts

8. Why does Barnard decide he wants to stay there?
(a) He has fathered a child
(b) If he leaves, he will be arrested
(c) He has married a tibetan woman
(d) He has become lazy and spoiled

9. What is Miss Brinklow's interest in the valley?
(a) their diets
(b) their religions
(c) their dress shops
(d) their public schools

10. What does Conway learn from Chang?
(a) that he spent the first five years as an ordinary man
(b) that he is only 22 years old
(c) that he will never become a lama
(d) that he was kidnapped and brought to the lamasery

11. How old is the most recent book in the library?
(a) fifty years old
(b) one year old
(c) ten years old
(d) a hundred years old

12. How does Mallinson challenge Conway?
(a) he says Conway has no proof
(b) he calls Conway a coward
(c) he dares Conway to leave
(d) he offers to give up Lo-Tsen

13. What did Father Perrault decide to do in the Valley?
(a) turn the Buddhist monastery into a Christian one
(b) build himself a palace and retire there
(c) get his strength back and leave
(d) give up his vows and marry a Valley woman

14. What does Conway credit with having taken a lot out of him?
(a) World War I
(b) working for the government
(c) teaching at Oxford
(d) too much travel

15. When does the High Lama say the meek shall inherit the earth?
(a) once the strong devour each other
(b) before the end of the earth
(c) when everyone learns about shangri-La
(d) after the next great war

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the High Lama say the Valley is free of?

2. What does Mallinson want Conway to be?

3. What does Chang say about anyone who falls in love with Lo-Tsen?

4. As his dream of Shangri-La dissolves, what does Conway agree to do?

5. Who does Barnard turn out to be?

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