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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mallinson want Conway to be?
(a) heroic
(b) stoic
(c) pro-active
(d) communicative
2. Why does Miss Brinklow decide she wants to stay?
(a) to become a female lama
(b) to avoid the war she is sure is coming
(c) to get married and have children
(d) to start a mission
3. Before he dies, what does the High Lama give to Conway?
(a) a map for leaving Shangri-La
(b) a blessing for a happy life
(c) a written record of Shangri-La
(d) the responsibility for Shangri-La
4. What does Conway say he considers himself?
(a) lazy
(b) ordinary
(c) ambitious
(d) uneducated
5. What does Conway believe that makes him want to stay in Shangri-La?
(a) He is the true High Lama
(b) There will be another war
(c) They will die trying to leave
(d) He will age if he tries to leave
6. Why does Conway not approach Lo-Tsen about his love for her?
(a) he fears rejection
(b) he doesn't think about it
(c) he feels there is plenty of time
(d) he wants to worship her afar
7. What does Conway credit with having taken a lot out of him?
(a) too much travel
(b) World War I
(c) teaching at Oxford
(d) working for the government
8. What happens with Conway and the Chinese girl?
(a) he falls in love with her
(b) he goes to her apartment
(c) he teaches her to play the Chopin pieces
(d) he stops seeing her
9. What was Chang before coming to Shangri-La?
(a) a teacher
(b) a soldier
(c) an explorer
(d) a Taoist monk
10. What is the High Lama like?
(a) a wizened old man who speaks perfect English
(b) a man of average height and age
(c) a tall, stout man in a white robe
(d) a young man, almost a child
11. What does Conway learn about Lo-Tsen?
(a) She learned to play the harpsichord at Shangri-La
(b) She is over 300 years old
(c) She was a Chinese princess
(d) She is a very new arrival
12. What does Mallinson want to know?
(a) how soon they can leave
(b) where the High Lama's rooms are
(c) if there are guards in the lamasery
(d) what the High Lama looks like
13. What does the High Lama want to know about Conway?
(a) if he can write Chinese
(b) if he can speak French
(c) if he is married with children
(d) if he can keep secrets
14. What does Conway learn from Chang?
(a) that he spent the first five years as an ordinary man
(b) that he was kidnapped and brought to the lamasery
(c) that he will never become a lama
(d) that he is only 22 years old
15. What has Mallinson done to organize an escape?
(a) found some maps
(b) bought some fur-lined clothes
(c) paid some porters in advance
(d) bribed a man from the valley
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the High Lama say about Conway's condition after he stays there for several decades?
2. What happens at breakfast the morning after Conway visits the High Lama?
3. Of the four in their group, what do all of them except Mallinson decide?
4. What agitates Mallinson one night?
5. What did Father Perrault decide to do in the Valley?
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