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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: The Way Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Matthiessen have?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

2. What rare event is Schaller happy to witness outside the monastery?
(a) The mating ritual among foxes.
(b) The chase for food by timber wolves.
(c) The fight to the death among blue sheep.
(d) The rutting of the blue sheep.

3. When a scientist asks Matthiessen why he is on the trip, what does he say?
(a) He is friends with Schaller.
(b) He wants to hunt the snow leopard.
(c) He is a field biologist.
(d) He does not know.

4. What makes Matthiessen's group believe that they can finally continue their journey again?
(a) The arrival of food.
(b) The arrival of peace.
(c) The arrival of ponies.
(d) The sun coming out.

5. Who in Matthiessen's group has hallucinogenic dreams?
(a) Tukten.
(b) Matthiessen.
(c) Schaller.
(d) Jang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes both Matthiessen and Schaller stoop over?

2. What area is closed to foreigners as a result of the fighting occurring in Nepal?

3. When Schaller returns from his night of tracking the snow leopard, what does he point out the next day?

4. What is the name of the place that Matthiessen and Tukten walk to catch a plane?

5. Matthiessen is very surprised to see that _____________cannot catch the blue sheep that they chase.

(see the answer key)

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