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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does Mallinson have for Conway's strange talk?
(a) He is afraid of mountain climbing
(b) He is falling ill from lack of nutrition
(c) He was seriously damaged by the war
(d) He is affected by the altitude

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

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

4. How old was Father Perrault when he settled in the Valley in 1734?
(a) 42
(b) 25
(c) 66
(d) 53

5. Who does Conway meet during the next week after his visit to the High Lama?
(a) a music teacher
(b) another Englishman
(c) some of the lamas
(d) Lo-Tsen

6. What does Mallinson insist about Lo-Tsen?
(a) She is young and in love with him
(b) She needs to go where her music will be heard
(c) She is young and needs to get out of the dreary place
(d) She has been trying to leave ever since she arrived

7. What does Conway try to warn Mallinson about?
(a) Lo-Tsen's real age and what will happen to her if she leaves
(b) an approaching snow storm
(c) the dangers of avalanche on the mountains
(d) the guards around Shangri-La who will shoot to kill

8. What does Conway say he considers himself?
(a) uneducated
(b) ordinary
(c) lazy
(d) ambitious

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

10. What does Chang say about anyone who falls in love with Lo-Tsen?
(a) She will respond and want to leave
(b) She will suddenly show her real age
(c) She will respond without passion
(d) She will be repulsed

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

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

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

14. What does Conway learn about Mallinson and Lo-Tsen?
(a) that she is waiting for him with the porters
(b) that they have made physical love
(c) that they have broken up and she waits for Conway
(d) that they do not really love each other

15. 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 help recruit new people
(d) to record the history of Shangri-La

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Conway lose the longer he lives in Shangri-La?

2. Why does Miss Brinklow decide she wants to stay?

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

4. What is Mallinson unable to do?

5. What does Conway also learn from the High Lama?

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