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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Barnard go frequently to the Valley of the Blue Moon?
(a) to get away from the others
(b) to ask many questions
(c) to drink and socialize
(d) to stay with a woman

2. What does Conway guess about the High Lama?
(a) he is 100 years old
(b) he is Father Perrault
(c) he is Henschell
(d) he is dying

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

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

5. What does Briac possess that he shares with Conway?
(a) unpublished works by Chopin
(b) books on astrology
(c) special French cuisine
(d) a diary of Chopin's

6. What are the quarters of the High Lama like?
(a) a set of luxurious suites
(b) a spacious throne room
(c) a room filled with memorabilia
(d) an apartment with a low roof

7. When he is with the others, what does Conway pretend?
(a) that he learned nothing from the High Lama
(b) that he wants to leave
(c) that he knows how they can leave
(d) that the High Lama cannot speak any language he knows

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

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

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

11. Why does Conway not approach Lo-Tsen about his love for her?
(a) he doesn't think about it
(b) he wants to worship her afar
(c) he feels there is plenty of time
(d) he fears rejection

12. What does the High Lama want to know about Conway?
(a) if he can speak French
(b) if he is married with children
(c) if he can keep secrets
(d) if he can write Chinese

13. What does Chang come to tell Conway late at night?
(a) the lamas all want to meet with him
(b) Lo-Tsen wants to meet him personally
(c) the High Lama wants to see him immediately
(d) the porters have come and gone

14. Why does the High Lama say Conway and his companions were chosen to come here?
(a) to realize their own spirituality
(b) to add diversity to Shangri-La
(c) to record the history of Shangri-La
(d) to help recruit new people

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the High Lama like?

2. What does Mallinson insist about Lo-Tsen?

3. What is Miss Brinklow's interest in the valley?

4. What did Father Perrault decide to do in the Valley?

5. Why is Conway excited about meeting the High Lama?

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