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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 surprises Conway and the others?
(a) the man speaks to them in French
(b) the man communicates with sign language
(c) the man has brought bowls of hot soup
(d) the man speaks perfect English

2. Who among the group says he will not be missed?
(a) Wayland
(b) Conway
(c) Mallinson
(d) Barnard

3. What have the Tibetans used to measure Karakal?
(a) long ropes
(b) extra sensory perception
(c) psychology
(d) trigonometry

4. On board the ship to Honolulu, what does Conway play on the piano?
(a) Irish folk songs
(b) lively pieces he says were written by Chopin
(c) what he remembers of Mozart
(d) all the old British and American balads

5. What does Mallinson believe when the plane takes off a second time?
(a) that they are being kidnapped
(b) that the pilot knows what he is doing
(c) that they are on the wrong plane
(d) that the plane is going to crash

Short Answer Questions

1. As they start down, how does the weather change?

2. What does Mallinson insist on?

3. What does Conway know about the terrain below?

4. Who makes up the inhabitants of the lamasery at Shangri-La?

5. Who is Miss Roberta Brinklow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they witness when the plane stops to refuel?

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

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

4. What do the other passengers appreciate about Conway?

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

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

7. What is the question Conway asks of the group of Britons and one American?

8. How is the traveling going up the mountains?

9. What raises questions among the passengers on the plane?

10. What was going on that leads up to the hijacking of the plane?

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