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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

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

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

6. 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

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

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

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

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

11. Why is Conway excited about meeting the High Lama?
(a) to ask for permission to leave
(b) to see if his theories are correct
(c) to ask to join the order
(d) to see inside the lamasery

12. What happens at breakfast the morning after Conway visits the High Lama?
(a) the others all have questions about the meeting
(b) the others will not speak to Conway
(c) Conway's breakfast is served in his room
(d) the others show Conway deep respect

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

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

15. As his dream of Shangri-La dissolves, what does Conway agree to do?
(a) never tell anyone about Shangri-La
(b) go with Mallinson
(c) cause an avalanche to bury Shangri-La
(d) tell Chang good-bye

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Conway next discover about Mallinson?

2. What is the High Lama like?

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

4. What does Chang do after he delivers Conway to the High Lama?

5. What does Conway believe that makes him want to stay in Shangri-La?

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