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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sanders say happened that has never been explained?
(a) a strange Tibetan monk got on one plane
(b) it snowed in Baskul the day the planes left
(c) one of the planes could not get off the ground
(d) a plane with three passengers disappeared

2. Who are the men dressed in sheepskins, fur hats and yak skin boots?
(a) Africans
(b) Chinese
(c) Tibetans
(d) Europeans

3. Why do they not talk much on the way to the lamasery?
(a) because they are plotting an escape
(b) because they are too excited
(c) because of the thin air at that altitude
(d) because they are too far apart

4. What do the Tibetans believe that Miss Brinklow thinks is horrible?
(a) the human sacrifice is necessary
(b) that man descended from monkeys
(c) that there is no God
(d) that God lives in the Himalayas

5. What is the name Conway reads on his bathtub?
(a) Detroit, Michigan
(b) Fresno, California
(c) Akron, Ohio
(d) Atlanta, Georgia

6. What does Mallinson think has happened to them?
(a) they have been kidnapped
(b) they are actually dead
(c) they have lost their minds
(d) they are all having the same dream

7. What is the condition of the pilot after the landing?
(a) unconscious
(b) hysterical
(c) angry
(d) tired

8. Who is the mystery man on board the plane?
(a) Charles Mallinson
(b) Hugh Conway
(c) Wyland Sanders
(d) Henry D. Barnard, an American

9. What does Miss Brinklow want to do that Chang says is impossible?
(a) buy some cosmetics
(b) get some cigarettes
(c) climb Karakal
(d) watch the monks at work

10. What do Green, Rutherford, and Tertius have in common?
(a) they are all traveling to Baskul
(b) they are all novelists
(c) they are British agents
(d) they are old school chums

11. How long has it been since Rutherford last saw Conway?
(a) a few days
(b) a few months
(c) a few weeks
(d) a few years

12. As the survivors head out to find the lamasery, what do they see?
(a) four men waving a blue flag
(b) four men carrying a litter
(c) four men leading a llama
(d) four men carrying guns

13. How does the weather change on the climb to get to the lamasery?
(a) it gets warmer and sunnier
(b) it gets colder and windier
(c) it begins to fluctuate rapidly
(d) it becomes very still and quiet

14. When the plane lands to refuel, what do the passengers see out the window?
(a) gasoline trucks
(b) a desolate frontier
(c) only runway lights
(d) black figures moving about

15. What does Mallinson believe when the plane takes off a second time?
(a) that the pilot knows what he is doing
(b) that the plane is going to crash
(c) that they are on the wrong plane
(d) that they are being kidnapped

Short Answer Questions

1. On board the ship to Honolulu, what does Conway play on the piano?

2. How does the plane eventually land?

3. When he wakes up, what does Conway see out his window?

4. What is surprising about the facilities at Shangri-La?

5. What does Chang say about the books of maps?

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