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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Conway learn about Lo-Tsen?
(a) She is over 300 years old
(b) She was a Chinese princess
(c) She learned to play the harpsichord at Shangri-La
(d) She is a very new arrival

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

3. Who does Barnard turn out to be?
(a) a secret undercover agent
(b) Chalmers Bryant, a man wanted by the police
(c) an exiled political leader
(d) Martin Sanders, an American pilot

4. Where do they decide they want to go?
(a) down into the populated valley below
(b) up to the top of Karakal
(c) into the lamasery itslef
(d) back to see the wreckage of the plane

5. What is Mallinson unable to do?
(a) find his way to Lo-Tsen
(b) get out of the mountain pass alone
(c) get Barnard to go with him
(d) carry the gold he has taken

6. Who was the young Austrian who came to the valley of the Blue Moon around this period?
(a) Virgil
(b) Henshaw
(c) Driscoll
(d) Henschell

7. Returning to Conway, what does Mallinson think about doing?
(a) blowing up Shangri-La and killing the High Lama
(b) committing suicide
(c) forcing Conway to go with him at gun point
(d) kidnapping the High Lama

8. How does the High Lama begin his meeting with Conway?
(a) telling the complex story of Shangri-La
(b) asking Conway questions about England
(c) quizzing Conway about religion
(d) complaining about the behavior of Mallinson

9. 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) No porters will ever agree to take him away
(c) There really are no porters
(d) He will have to wait nine months for the next ones

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

11. In subsequent meetings, what do Conway and the High Lama discuss?
(a) history and philosophy
(b) war and peace
(c) people and places
(d) religion and atheism

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

13. What does Chang do after he delivers Conway to the High Lama?
(a) makes tea
(b) stands guard at the door
(c) takes a seat next to the High Lama
(d) leaves them alone

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

15. What happens with Conway and the Chinese girl?
(a) he teaches her to play the Chopin pieces
(b) he goes to her apartment
(c) he falls in love with her
(d) he stops seeing her

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Chang seen when people try to leave Shangri-La?

2. How old was Father Perrault when he settled in the Valley in 1734?

3. What does Mallinson want to know?

4. Why does Conway not get answers to some of his questions?

5. What happens at breakfast the morning after Conway visits the High Lama?

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