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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Samphel say he does for a living in Part IV?
(a) Hairstyling.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Books for a taxi company.
(d) Cooking.

2. When did Samphel learn he had a daughter?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

3. What does Tenkyi fear when she gets to the mansion to return the Nameless Saint?
(a) The trees.
(b) The cameras there.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The postmen.

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

5. What does Samphel want to recover more than anything else?
(a) His ring.
(b) His mother's portrait.
(c) His diary.
(d) His fireplace tile.

6. What does Samphel ask Lhamo to help him recover?
(a) His father's diary.
(b) A diamond ring he lost.
(c) A picture of Lhamo.
(d) His family's things that have been buried somewhere in the homeland or on the trail.

7. What is one of Tashi's big problems?
(a) He can not read.
(b) He can not sing.
(c) Addiction.
(d) His leg is always hurting.

8. 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 are all safe.
(d) They have been burned.

9. Why does Lhamo think she and Tashi are a bad couple?
(a) They have different birthdays.
(b) He is gay.
(c) They do not belong together.
(d) She is gay.

10. What does Lhamo find in Ama's things that surprises her?
(a) Ama's lipstick.
(b) Ama's leopard skin.
(c) Ama's diary.
(d) Ama's prayer book.

11. 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 does not know what the saint is.
(d) He is glib about it.

12. What does Lhamo do with Samphel in Part IV for the first and only time?
(a) Have sex.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Cook.

13. What does Lhamo tie around Samphel's wrist?
(a) A string to remember.
(b) A handcuff.
(c) A prayer flag.
(d) A bracelet she made.

14. What incident seems to precipitate Palzom's decline in Part IV?
(a) A falling-out with a manager.
(b) Her getting the flu.
(c) Her defaulting on a loan.
(d) A physical fall.

15. Where does Palzom eventually return to?
(a) India.
(b) Nepal.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term of affection does Lhamo use for Gen Lobsang?

2. What does Ashang Migmar ask Lhamo to do in Part IV that surprises her?

3. What does Samphel remember Lhamo saying to him after they had sex?

4. Who does everyone think - wrongly - is the father of Lhamo's baby?

5. What do Tenkyi and Lhamo do just before Tenkyi leaves for school?

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