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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. Why does Barnard decide he wants to stay there?
(a) If he leaves, he will be arrested
(b) He has fathered a child
(c) He has married a tibetan woman
(d) He has become lazy and spoiled

2. How long is it before Conway sees the High Lama again?
(a) three days
(b) only a month
(c) six months
(d) a year

3. What does Conway believe that makes him want to stay in Shangri-La?
(a) He will age if he tries to leave
(b) He is the true High Lama
(c) They will die trying to leave
(d) There will be another war

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

5. What does Conway say he considers himself?
(a) lazy
(b) ordinary
(c) uneducated
(d) ambitious

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mallinson want Conway to be?

2. What does the High Lama say about Conway's condition after he stays there for several decades?

3. What does Miss Brinklow decide to do?

4. Why does Conway not get answers to some of his questions?

5. What custom of the people did Father Perrault observe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mallinson's arguments cause Conway's dream of Shangri-La to dissolve away?

2. Tell what Chang informs Barnard when he asks for a newspaper.

3. After leaving on his own, why does Mallinson return to Shangri-La?

4. How does Conway find himself leading a double life?

5. How does Conway sidestep informing his friends about the conversation with the High Lama?

6. What is Conway's guess that turns out to be correct?

7. Why has Conway really decided to remain in Shangri-La?

8. Who does Barnard turn out to be?

9. How is Conway amazed by the drawing of Henschell?

10. Tell something about the formality of the meeting.

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