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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Barnard and Mallinson begin to think about?
(a) how the monks never go out of the lamasery
(b) how the monks get their money
(c) how the monks survive the winters
(d) how the monks came to Shangri-La

2. What does Chang say about the books of maps?
(a) Shangri-La is not on them
(b) they are all in Chinese
(c) they are kept locked up
(d) they do not have any

3. Where is the opening scene of the novel?
(a) a flight to Baskul, a town in Persia
(b) a plane out of India
(c) at Heathrow Airport in London
(d) Tempelhof Airport near Berlin

4. What are some of the treasures Conway enjoys at Shangri-La?
(a) violins, carved cabinets, and antiquities
(b) fine fabrics, crystal glasses, and figurines
(c) paintings, tapestries and ceramics of museum quality
(d) scrolls, letters, and manuscripts in Chinese

5. Where is Conway pretty sure they have landed?
(a) miles away from Tibet
(b) near the Chinese border
(c) beyond the western range of the Himalayas
(d) on the back side of Mt. Everest

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Brinklow want to know about?

2. How does the weather change on the climb to get to the lamasery?

3. Who does Chang say they can employ to lead them out of Shangri-La?

4. What do the Tibetans believe that Miss Brinklow thinks is horrible?

5. What does the Mother superior say about Conway?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel begin?

2. How is Mallinson bothered a second time on the flight?

3. How does Mallinson interrupt the conversation at dinner?

4. Describe what is foremost on Mallinson's mind.

5. What is the book about that Green wrote and Rutherford had read?

6. How had Rutherford found Conway some time ago?

7. What does Miss Brinklow say she has heard about Tibetans?

8. How are the amenities at the guest quarters of the lamasery?

9. How does Chang discuss the practices and beliefs of the lamas?

10. How are the men carrying the old man dressed?

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