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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 is the inspection by the police done so quickly in Jumla?
(a) The policemen are friends with Tukten.
(b) They are in a hurry.
(c) Tukten bribed them.
(d) Matthiessen bribed them.

2. What does Schaller feel the snow leopard is doing while they are tracking the animal?
(a) Getting above them.
(b) Watching them.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Planning to attack them.

3. Whom do Matthiessen and Jang-bu go to meet in Shey?
(a) The leader of the sherpas.
(b) The king of Bhutan.
(c) The priest of Tibet.
(d) The lama of Shey.

4. Who are the people living in Shey?
(a) Russians.
(b) Mongolians.
(c) Indians.
(d) Tibetans.

5. Who gets drunk and thinks about going to India with money he has gathered?
(a) Tukten.
(b) Dawa.
(c) Gyaltsen.
(d) Matthiessen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Matthiessen feel that his body needs to readjust to?

3. What does Matthiessen see on the mountain surrounded by "treeless waste?"

4. Due to snowdrifts, the sherpas warn against traveling on their planned route but Matthiessen's group cannot go on the new trail because they lack _________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story that the locals tell Matthiessen on his descent down the mountains after the group leaves Murwa?

2. What does Schaller discover when he returns to Kathmandu that prevents travel in the Land of Dolpo?

3. With whom does Matthiessen share a special bond and what about this individual surprises him in Jumla?

4. Who gets sick along the last leg of the journey and requires immediate treatment?

5. What does Schaller wonder about the juvenile sheep that he sees outside the monastery?

6. What do Matthiessen, Tukten, and Dawa do when they arrive in Jumla?

7. When Jang-bu and another sherpa go in search of firewood, where do Matthiessen and Schaller wander and what do they find?

8. What event do Matthiessen and Schaller witness outside the monastery that surprises them because they did not expect to see that animal or for it to act in the way that it does?

9. Who do Matthiessen, Dawa, and Tukten find that can help them in Murwa?

10. What makes it easier for Dawa to travel after they leave Murwa?

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