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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lhamo gather has happened to many of her parents' things?
(a) They have been sold.
(b) They never existed to begin with.
(c) They have been burned.
(d) They are all safe.

2. What prize did His Holiness once win?
(a) Pulitzer Prize.
(b) National Book Award.
(c) Dalinger Prize.
(d) Nobel Peace Prize.

3. Who is one of the most devoted volunteers in Tenkyi's Canadian community?
(a) Migmar.
(b) Helen.
(c) Pasang.
(d) Jane.

4. Who does everyone think - wrongly - is the father of Lhamo's baby?
(a) Tashi.
(b) Henry.
(c) Gen Lobsang.
(d) Ben.

5. Who drives the jeep that takes Tenkyi away in Part III?
(a) Ashang.
(b) Ama.
(c) Samphel.
(d) Tashi.

6. What term of affection does Lhamo use for Gen Lobsang?
(a) Henla.
(b) Tenla.
(c) Genla.
(d) Renla.

7. Where is Tenkyi set to go to school?
(a) Kathmandu.
(b) America.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Canada.

8. What does Gen Lobsang suggest for Lhamo to travel in Part III?
(a) Going to Canada.
(b) Going to the Carribbean.
(c) Going to Myanmar.
(d) Going to help his elderly mother.

9. What does Lhamo always put in the tea of her homeland?
(a) Meat.
(b) Butter.
(c) Fish.
(d) Sugar.

10. How does Tenkyi first see the Nameless Saint as a child?
(a) Floating high above her in Ama's fingers.
(b) In a ditch somewhere.
(c) While Pala was holding it.
(d) While Lhamo was holding it.

11. What does Tenkyi sometimes wonder about herself?
(a) How pretty she is.
(b) If she will ever have a child.
(c) If she will ever see Tashi again.
(d) How solid her grip on reality is.

12. Who is Gen Lobsang's mother?
(a) Lo Sakya.
(b) Lo Helia.
(c) Lo Skara.
(d) Lo Jaynar.

13. Which former student of Tenkyi's approaches her on the street?
(a) Wangyal.
(b) Febri.
(c) Helian.
(d) Minstriop.

14. What does Ashang Migmar ask Lhamo to do in Part IV that surprises her?
(a) Cut his ceremonial long hair.
(b) Make a grave for him.
(c) Get him a new job.
(d) Cut his bracelet off.

15. Why does Samphel's feeling about the saint surprise Lhamo in Part IV?
(a) He is angry about it.
(b) Samphel is not impressed with it, but Lhamo has always been around people who worshipped it.
(c) He is glib about it.
(d) He does not know what the saint is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Samphel pay to try to find his family's buried possessions?

2. Who is one of Tenkyi's first friends back in Delhi?

3. Where does Lhamo move after her marriage?

4. What do the camp's residents say to Tenkyi when she leaves?

5. Who is Samphel's Tibetan guard?

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