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Test: Silk Road - Question 1

What is Kora?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 1
The purpose of the author’s journey to Mount Kailash was a religious one. He had to perform pilgrimage of ‘Kora’ to Mount Kailash. Devout Buddhists visited Mount Kailash for this purpose.
Test: Silk Road - Question 2

What did Lhamo give to the protagonist as a farewell gift?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 2
The narrator was about to leave Ravu for Mount Kailash to do the kora when Lhambo, a Tibetan woman, wanted to give him a farewell present. She wanted to give the narrator some warm clothes. She gave one of the long sleeved sheepskin coats that all the men wore.
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Test: Silk Road - Question 3

What is the meaning of 'Kyang'?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 3
The wild ass there are called ‘kyang’. Possibly it is a Tibetan word. Kyangs move in great herd galloping in the arid pastures of plains in Ravu.
Test: Silk Road - Question 4

What did the big Tibetan dogs do after they saw the approaching car?

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Tibetan mastiffs are the huge black dogs of the nomads' dark tent and they would be fearless of the car and they would shooting straight into the car path causing the driver to brake and swerve. They would chase the car off the property.
Test: Silk Road - Question 5

Why did the driver stop the car at a sharp turn?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 5
On the way to Mount Kailash the turn become sharper and the road bumpier. The author felt pressure building up in his ears. After struggling round, at another tight bend, Tsetan stop the car and jump out of it because there was a barrier. The track was covered by snow.
Test: Silk Road - Question 6

When did the protagonist's head start to feel pulsated again?

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The narrator and his companions took a short cut to get off the Changtang. Tsetan knew a route that would take them southwest, almost directly towards Mount Kailash. It involved crossing several fairly high mountain passes. From the gently rising and failing hills of Ravu, the shortcut took them across vast open plains with nothing in them except a few gazelles that were grazing in the arid pastures. Further ahead, the plains became more stony than grassy, and there a great herd of wild ass came into view.

Still ahead, hills became steeper where solitary drokpas were tending their flocks. This led them to the snow-capped mountains and then to the valley where the river was wide and by and large clogged with ice. At a height of 5,515 metres, piles of stones marked the landscape. Next was the plateau which was covered with salty desert area and salty lakes that were remnants of the Tethys Ocean. Hor was next in line. It was a wretched place with no vegetation just dust and rocks, liberally scattered with years of accumulated refuse.

Test: Silk Road - Question 7

Why was Hor an ugly and miserable place?

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Hor was an ugly and miserable place which had no vegetation and just dust and rocks. It is scattered with gathered refuse and it was luckless that it was on the shore of Lake Mansarovar which is Tibet's most respected water.
Test: Silk Road - Question 8

What happened when they reached Darchen at night to stay in the guest House?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 8
The narrator reached the Darchen guesthouse after 10.30 p.m. This was just the beginning of a troubled night. The open-air rubbish dump in Hor had set off his cold once more. One of his nostrils was blocked again and he was tired and hungry. He started breathing through his mouth. After a while, he woke up abruptly. His chest felt strangely heavy but when he sat up, his nasal passages cleared almost instantly and relieved the feeling in his chest. He lay down again. Just as he was about to doze something told him not to.

He was not gasping for breath, but could not go to sleep. He sat up but as soon as he lay down, his sinuses filled and his chest felt strange. He tried supporting himself against the wall, but could not manage to relax enough to sleep. He did not know what was wrong but had a feeling that if he slept he would not wake up again. So he stayed awake all night.

Test: Silk Road - Question 9

Where did the men play a game of pool in Darchen every afternoon?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 9
The narrator was not only disappointed with the filth in Darchen but also because of the lack of pilgrims. Moreover, since Tsetan had left, he had not come across anyone in Darchen with enough English to answer even this most basic question. It was then that he met Norbu in a cafe. He was Tibetan, he told him, but worked in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in the Institute of Ethnic Literature.

He had also come to do the kora. Norbu had been writing academic papers about the Kailash kora and its importance in various works of Buddhist literature for many years, but he had never actually done it himself. He was relieved to form a team with another academician. This apart, Norbu, wasn’t really a practising Buddhist, though he was a Tibetan. He suggested that they hire some yaks to carry their luggage, as he had no intention of prostrating himself all round the mountain.

Test: Silk Road - Question 10

Where did Norbu work?

Detailed Solution for Test: Silk Road - Question 10
Norbu was a Tibetan. He worked in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He had come to do the 'Kora'. He had been writing academic papers about the Kailash Kora and its importance in various works of Buddhist literature.
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