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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 go frequently to the Valley of the Blue Moon?
(a) to get away from the others
(b) to ask many questions
(c) to drink and socialize
(d) to stay with a woman

2. What does Conway guess about the High Lama?
(a) he is 100 years old
(b) he is Father Perrault
(c) he is Henschell
(d) he is dying

3. What disturbs Mallinson after the porters come and go without taking him with them?
(a) There really are no porters
(b) No porters will ever agree to take him away
(c) Blue Moon men are the ones who go for their supplies
(d) He will have to wait nine months for the next ones

4. Where do they decide they want to go?
(a) down into the populated valley below
(b) into the lamasery itslef
(c) back to see the wreckage of the plane
(d) up to the top of Karakal

5. What does Briac possess that he shares with Conway?
(a) unpublished works by Chopin
(b) books on astrology
(c) special French cuisine
(d) a diary of Chopin's

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When he is with the others, what does Conway pretend?

3. Returning to Conway, what does Mallinson think about doing?

4. In subsequent meetings, what do Conway and the High Lama discuss?

5. What is Mallinson unable to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do they get to visit the Valley of the Blue Moon down below Shangri-La?

3. Tell something about the formality of the meeting.

4. Briefly describe the information Chang gives Conway and the others.

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

6. How does the High Lama say Conway will age if he stays in Shangri-La?

7. Why does Barnard announce that he wants to stay in Shangri-La?

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

9. Explain Conway's ambiguous reply when the High Lama invites him to remain forever in Shangri-La.

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

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