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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. What do Dolma and some other Tibetans call Americans?
(a) Rari.
(b) Ari.
(c) Beki.
(d) Heli.

2. Who is one of the other academics focusing on Tibet that Dolma meets in Part II?
(a) Horowitz.
(b) Richards.
(c) Jacobs.
(d) Henries.

3. What does Lhamo do to try to keep Tenkyi in the camp with her?
(a) Say Tenkyi does not want to go.
(b) Fake an illness of Tenkyi's.
(c) Say Tenkyi has powers.
(d) Make Tenkyi hide.

4. What is the new word Lhamo hears to describe herself and her family as displaced people?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Helions.

5. Who does Doma have a nightcap with in Part II?
(a) Henri.
(b) Fleming.
(c) Dia.
(d) Riki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Pala" mean?

2. Who tells Lhamo not to reply if the spirits call her?

3. Who is Lhamo's uncle who travels with them into exile?

4. Who takes Po Dhundup's body on a journey?

5. What were part of Lhamo's daily rituals in Nepal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ashang Migmar do with Po Dhondup's body?

2. What is the power of Lhamo's mother's mirror?

3. What is unusual about Ama in Chapter 1?

4. What is unusual about the ku's appearance?

5. What is the legend around the Ku, or the Nameless Saint?

6. What does Lhamo's family and many other Tibetans do with their possessions before they leave home?

7. What does Tenkyi end up doing and behaving like in Toronto?

8. Why does Lhamo also not end up staying with Shumo?

9. What does Dolma end up thinking of Gyalsten?

10. Who do some of the displaced people in the camp suggest, improbably, the refugees should ask for help?

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