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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What custom of the people did Father Perrault observe?
(a) doing as little work as possible
(b) polygamy being practiced
(c) using a local berry as a narcotic
(d) building elaborate houses

2. 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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Mallinson want Conway to be?
(a) stoic
(b) heroic
(c) pro-active
(d) communicative

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

9. 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

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(d) unpublished works by Chopin

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

12. What was the monk's condition when he reached the valley?
(a) hungry but mobile
(b) near death
(c) healthy but tired
(d) suffering amnesia

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

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

15. What is special about the French lama, Alphonse Briac?
(a) he studied under Chopin
(b) he speaks eleven languages
(c) he knew Moliere
(d) he fought with Napoleon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long is it before Conway sees the High Lama again?

3. Why does the High Lama say Conway and his companions were chosen to come here?

4. Who does Conway meet during the next week after his visit to the High Lama?

5. What ideas do the lamas have that Miss Brinklow is opposed to?

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