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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the monk who came to the Valley of the Blue Moon in the 18th Century?
(a) Brother Pierre
(b) Father Perrault
(c) Father Perrier
(d) Brother Piedmont

2. What has Chang seen when people try to leave Shangri-La?
(a) they cannot exist in the outside world
(b) they suddenly show their true age
(c) they have fatal accidents
(d) they die at the border

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

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

5. What does Chang tell Barnard about newspapers at Shangri-La?
(a) newspapers are not available except to the lamas
(b) there are old copies of the London Times
(c) there are old copies of Chinese newspapers
(d) there are no newspapers there

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

7. What does Mallinson want to know?
(a) where the High Lama's rooms are
(b) what the High Lama looks like
(c) how soon they can leave
(d) if there are guards in the lamasery

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

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

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

11. What has Mallinson done to organize an escape?
(a) bribed a man from the valley
(b) found some maps
(c) bought some fur-lined clothes
(d) paid some porters in advance

12. What has never happened before at Shangri-La?
(a) an avalanche on Mt. Karakal
(b) becoming a lama after only one visit to the High Lama
(c) the High Lama leaving his apartment
(d) the High Lama seeing someone again so soon

13. Before he dies, what does the High Lama give to Conway?
(a) a written record of Shangri-La
(b) a map for leaving Shangri-La
(c) the responsibility for Shangri-La
(d) a blessing for a happy life

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Brinklow decide to do?

2. What does Mallinson insist about Lo-Tsen?

3. What social event happens that Conway is familiar with?

4. What does Mallinson insist is their responsibility?

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

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