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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. On the evening David-Neel and Yongden had returned to their shelter near the fence, she checked her calendar and discovered it was what date?
(a) December 25.
(b) December 24.
(c) December 31.
(d) January 1.

2. David-Neel and Yongden looked for a place to camp and saw a patch of yellow near their water source that turned out to be what?
(a) A thatched cottage.
(b) A thatched shed.
(c) A patch of flowers.
(d) A pile of hay.

3. On the unmapped path, David-Neel and Yongden risked running into bands of thieves who might kill them to keep what secret?
(a) Their methods.
(b) Their identities.
(c) Their stolen goods.
(d) Their hiding places.

4. How many men did David-Neel describe marching in file in the wonderful spectacle that concluded her visit to Lhasa?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) Several hundred.
(c) Perhaps a thousand.
(d) Dozens.

5. How did David-Neel refer to the boarding husband whose assisting wife was injured?
(a) "The Sergeant."
(b) "The Captain."
(c) "The Colonel."
(d) "The Commander."

Short Answer Questions

1. David-Neel wore a head cover as she entered the Lhasa palace, but who scolded her to remove it as hats were not to be worn inside?

2. The last part of Chapter VI focused on David-Neel's worries as she and Yongden had to get approval at an official's residence in order to cross a river bridge and travel beyond it, but how did it end?

3. What type of visitors did David-Neel and Yongden wait for outside the Dalai Lama's traditional palace before they entered?

4. How were these roads across Po described to David-Neel and Yongden?

5. In the latter half of Chapter VI, David-Neel detailed that she learned that which friend had been forced out of his palace and into exile?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it David-Neel went to the rescue of a dog?

2. As she was unable to return before dark, how did David-Neel find the cave Yongden had remained in after is injury?

3. How did David-Neel describe a typical bridge found in remote regions of Tibet?

4. Given her hesitance due to its possible origin, how did David-Neel accept a piece of bread offered to her at the start of Chapter VI?

5. David-Neel was unable to find anyone to aid Yongden after his injury, but she managed to return with what?

6. How did David-Neel describe the manner in which Asians approached respecting others who slept?

7. How was it David-Neel initially described the palace in Lhasa?

8. How did David-Neel describe Lhasa?

9. How did their encounter go with the first individuals David-Neel and Yongden came upon after they crossed the pass and Yongden had sustained his injury?

10. How did Yongden depart the monastery where he met a monk who came from the region where Yongden's great-grandfather had been a lama?

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