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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 seeing someone again so soon
(d) the High Lama leaving his apartment

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

4. What does the High Lama say about Conway's condition after he stays there for several decades?
(a) he will still look like he is 40 years old
(b) he will age more rapidly
(c) he will never climb a mountain
(d) he will never get sick

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

6. How does Mallinson describe Lo-Tsen?
(a) like an ivory doll
(b) like a spirit
(c) like a robot
(d) like a person in a trance

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

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

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

10. What does the High Lama say the Valley is free of?
(a) debt, homelessness, and over working
(b) politics, crime, and fear
(c) pain, suffering, and death
(d) lust, war, and brutality

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

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

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

14. 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 stops seeing her
(d) he goes to her apartment

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the most recent book in the library?

2. What does Conway guess about the High Lama?

3. What are the quarters of the High Lama like?

4. How does the High Lama begin his meeting with Conway?

5. In subsequent meetings, what do Conway and the High Lama discuss?

(see the answer keys)

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