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

2. What is the High Lama like?
(a) a man of average height and age
(b) a young man, almost a child
(c) a tall, stout man in a white robe
(d) a wizened old man who speaks perfect English

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

4. What does Mallinson insist is their responsibility?
(a) to help catch Bryant
(b) to help Barnard avoid arrest
(c) to escape from their prison
(d) to inform Chang of Barnard's real name

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

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

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

8. What does Conway credit with having taken a lot out of him?
(a) teaching at Oxford
(b) World War I
(c) too much travel
(d) working for the government

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

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

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

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

13. How old is the most recent book in the library?
(a) a hundred years old
(b) ten years old
(c) fifty years old
(d) one year old

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Chang before coming to Shangri-La?

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

3. What agitates Mallinson one night?

4. What does Conway admit about himself?

5. What has never happened before at Shangri-La?

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