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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 does Chang say Shangri-La avoids?
(a) contamination from the outside world
(b) severe fluctuations of weather
(c) avalanches from the mountains
(d) death and disease

2. What does the American attempt to do?
(a) make jokes about their situation
(b) find a weapon in the plane
(c) open the door to jump out
(d) unlock the cockpit door

3. Why does Rutherford say he read Green's book?
(a) because Conway may have ambrosia
(b) because Conway may have amnesia
(c) because Conway may have hypochondria
(d) because Conway may have phantasmagoria

4. How does Conway get away from Rutherford in Honolulu?
(a) he stowes away on a ship returning to China
(b) he jumps ship and goes into hiding
(c) he joins the crew of a banana boat going south to Fiji
(d) he gets a job on a whaling ship out of Japan

5. How does Conway classify the land below?
(a) remote and inaccessable
(b) beautiful and interesting
(c) mesa land good for putting down a plane
(d) easy to signal aricraft flying over

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Brinklow want to know about?

2. Why are the British evacuating white residents from Baskul to Peshawar?

3. Who is Lo-Tsen?

4. Where does Mallinson want to be taken?

5. What does the pilot do when he regains consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Conway believe Chang may be ill?

2. Describe what it is that Rutherford leaves with Green that night.

3. How does Mallinson interrupt the conversation at dinner?

4. Who arrives and talks about a plane that once went missing in Baskul?

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

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

7. Why does Conway start leading the group in a particular direction?

8. What do the other passengers appreciate about Conway?

9. Describe what the conditions are like for the stranded passengers that night.

10. Who are the four passengers on board the plane?

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