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  • 1. On what date did Alexandra David-Néel leave for her first trip to Tibet?
A) 13 July 1924
B) 16 July 1916
C) 13 July 1916
D) 10 May 1925
  • 2. Which monastery did Alexandra David-Néel visit on 16 July 1916?
A) Tashilhunpo Monastery
B) Chorten Nyima
C) Drepung Monastery
D) Kumbum Monastery
  • 3. Who suggested that Alexandra David-Néel reside in a convent during her 1916 visit?
A) A monk accompanying her
B) The mother of the Panchen Lama
C) Yongden
D) The Panchen Lama himself
  • 4. What honorary titles did David-Néel receive from the Panchen Lama in 1916?
A) Pilgrim and protector
B) High Priestess and scholar
C) Ambassador and monk
D) Lama and doctor in Tibetan Buddhism
  • 5. Why did British colonial authorities want to deport Alexandra David-Néel after her 1916 trip?
A) For insulting the Panchen Lama
B) For traveling without a passport
C) For stealing Buddhist scriptures
D) For violating the no-entry edict into Tibet
  • 6. Who was the philosopher David-Néel met in Japan who had stayed in Lhasa in disguise?
A) Jacques Brosse
B) Swami Asuri Kapila
C) David Macdonald
D) Ekai Kawaguchi
  • 7. Where did David-Néel and Yongden spend three years translating the Prajnaparamita?
A) Samye Monastery
B) Kumbum Monastery
C) Sera Monastery
D) Tashilhunpo Monastery
  • 8. How did Alexandra David-Néel typically eat regarding her dietary preferences?
A) She only ate meat dishes
B) She preferred vegetarian food
C) She only ate raw food
D) She fasted throughout her life
  • 9. What items did David-Néel hide under her rags during her 1924 trip to Lhasa?
A) A telescope, a knife, and gold
B) A prayer wheel, a camera, and a pistol
C) A compass, a pistol, and a purse
D) A camera, a journal, and a map
  • 10. What event was occurring in Lhasa when David-Néel arrived in 1924?
A) Monlam Prayer Festival
B) A royal wedding
C) A harvest festival
D) The Dalai Lama's birthday
  • 11. What led to the unmasking of Alexandra David-Néel in Lhasa?
A) She was betrayed by a monk
B) She forgot her Tibetan language skills
C) She was seen holding a camera
D) She washed herself every morning at the river
  • 12. Who was the Governor of Lhasa that David-Néel was denounced to?
A) The Panchen Lama
B) Swami Asuri Kapila
C) Tsarong Shape
D) David Macdonald
  • 13. How did David-Néel reach Northern India after her 1924 stay in Lhasa?
A) She received help from French diplomats
B) She traveled by train from Lhasa
C) She borrowed money from David Macdonald
D) She was escorted by the Dalai Lama
  • 14. Which book chronicling her 1924 adventure was published in 1927?
A) My Journey to Lhasa
B) The Prajnaparamita Journey
C) The Forbidden City
D) Alexandra David-Néel au Tibet
  • 15. Why did critics express disbelief regarding David-Néel's 1927 book?
A) They doubted the stories about levitation and tummo
B) They claimed she had stolen the text
C) They argued that the photos were too clear
D) They did not believe she was ever in India
  • 16. What claim did Jeanne Denys make in her 1972 book about David-Néel?
A) That she invented the Buddhist scriptures
B) That she never entered Lhasa
C) That she was a spy for the British
D) That she never went to Tibet
  • 17. What did Jean Marquès-Rivière claim David-Néel was doing in China from 1917 to 1924?
A) Training as a Buddhist nun
B) Translating ancient texts
C) Monitoring Franco-Belgian interests
D) Working as a librarian
  • 18. Whom did Alexandra David-Néel adopt as her son in 1914?
A) Lachen Gomchen Rinpoche
B) Kazi Dawa Samdup
C) Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal
D) Aphur Yongden
  • 19. Which secret society did Sidkeong join in Calcutta in March 1913?
A) The Order of the Golden Dawn
B) The Theosophical Society
C) Freemasonry
D) The Buddhist Reform League
  • 20. What gift did Sidkeong give to Alexandra David-Néel on January 4, 1914?
A) A golden statue of the Buddha
B) A sacred Tibetan manuscript
C) A sanctified lamani's dress
D) A map of the northern border
  • 21. Who was the wife of Sidkeong that Alexandra David-Néel counseled?
A) Ma Lat
B) The daughter of the Chogyal
C) A Tibetan noblewoman
D) Kali Koumar
  • 22. What stage name did David-Néel use while performing in Hanoi?
A) Alexandra Néel
B) Alexandra Myrial
C) Alexandra Delibes
D) Alexandra Saint-Sauveur
  • 23. Which opera did David-Néel perform the role of Violetta in?
A) La traviata
B) Carmen
C) Faust
D) Lakmé
  • 24. Which composer did David-Néel maintain a pen friendship with?
A) Georges Bizet
B) Jules Massenet
C) Léo Delibes
D) Giuseppe Verdi
  • 25. Who composed the music for the lyric tragedy Lidia?
A) Victor Massé
B) Charles Gounod
C) Philippe Néel
D) Jean Haustont
  • 26. What role did David-Néel take on at the casino of Tunis in 1902?
A) Piano instructor
B) Artistic director
C) Chief engineer
D) Lead singer
  • 27. On what date did David-Néel marry Philippe Néel de Saint-Sauveur?
A) May 1925
B) 9 August 1911
C) 15 September 1900
D) 4 August 1904
  • 28. How long was David-Néel's trip to India that began in 1911?
A) Nineteen months
B) Fourteen years
C) Ten years
D) Five years
  • 29. Which of these operas did David-Néel perform in?
A) Tosca
B) La bohème
C) The Magic Flute
D) Carmen
  • 30. In which city did David-Néel perform at the opera from November 1899 to January 1900?
A) Hanoi
B) Athens
C) Tunis
D) Brussels
  • 31. In what year did Alexandra David-Néel visit Lhasa, Tibet?
A) 1924
B) 1929
C) 1899
D) 1910
  • 32. Who was the French geographer and anarchist that influenced David-Néel during her childhood?
A) Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati
B) Benjamin Creme
C) Jean Haustont
D) Elisée Reclus
  • 33. At what age did David-Néel run away to try and reach England?
A) 21
B) 2
C) 15
D) 18
  • 34. Which spiritual leader did David-Néel meet in India in 1891?
A) Ram Dass
B) Madame Blavatsky
C) Elisée Reclus
D) Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati
  • 35. In what year did David-Néel convert to Buddhism?
A) 1891
B) 1896
C) 1889
D) 1899
  • 36. Which of the following authors was influenced by David-Néel's teachings?
A) Jack Kerouac
B) Louis David
C) Jean Chalon
D) Raymond Brodeur
  • 37. What language did David-Néel go to London to refine for her career as an orientalist?
A) Tibetan
B) English
C) Sanskrit
D) French
  • 38. According to Jean Chalon, where did David-Néel's vocation to be an orientalist and Buddhist originate?
A) Guimet Museum
B) Collège de France
C) British Museum
D) Ecole pratique des hautes Etudes
  • 39. In what country did David-Néel's family emigrate when she was four years old?
A) India
B) England
C) Switzerland
D) Belgium
  • 40. Which esotericist was influenced by David-Néel's teachings?
A) Alan Watts
B) Benjamin Creme
C) Ram Dass
D) Allen Ginsberg
  • 41. In what year did Alexandra David-Néel buy her house in Digne-les-Bains?
A) 1946
B) 1928
C) 1925
D) 1937
  • 42. What is the name of Alexandra David-Néel's house in Digne-les-Bains?
A) Beijing
B) Tachienlu
C) Samten-Dzong
D) Amnye Machen
  • 43. How old was David-Néel when she left for China in 1937?
A) Sixty-nine
B) Seventy-nine
C) Sixty-five
D) Fifty-nine
  • 44. In what year did David-Néel's husband die?
A) 1937
B) 1945
C) 1939
D) 1941
  • 45. Who helped Violet Sydney return to the West in 1939?
A) Yongden
B) Raymond Brodeur
C) Peter Goullart
D) Christian Fouchet
  • 46. Who accompanied Violet Sydney to Chengdu after Peter Goullart?
A) French Consul
B) Her secretary
C) Tibetan monks
D) Lolo bandits
  • 47. What holy mountain did David-Néel and Yongden circumambulate in Eastern Tibet?
A) Amnye Machen
B) Mount Chengdu
C) Mount Digne
D) Mount Wutai
  • 48. Who was the French Consul at Calcutta who befriended David-Néel?
A) Yongden
B) Christian Fouchet
C) Peter Goullart
D) Raymond Brodeur
  • 49. How did David-Néel leave Asia in 1946?
A) By airplane
B) By the Trans-Siberian Railway
C) By ship
D) By car
  • 50. What weather condition occurred when David-Néel first visited her house in Digne-les-Bains?
A) Rainstorm
B) Heatwave
C) Snowfall
D) Windstorm
  • 51. At what age did Alexandra David-Néel return to France to arrange her husband's estate?
A) 69
B) 70
C) 78
D) 87
  • 52. In which city did Alexandra David-Néel live after returning to France?
A) Paris
B) Monaco
C) Digne
D) Lyon
  • 53. Who did Alexandra David-Néel commend for taking her place at a conference at the Theosophical Society?
A) Paul Adam
B) Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet
C) Yongden
D) Jacques Brosse
  • 54. What title was associated with Paul Adam?
A) Doctor of Medicine
B) Tibetan Scholar
C) Dalai Lama
D) Venerable Aryadeva
  • 55. On what date did Yongden die?
A) October 1959
B) 1 April 1957
C) 7 October 1955
D) June 1959
  • 56. According to the doctor, what was the cause of Yongden's death?
A) Indigestion
B) A fall
C) Kidney failure
D) Articular rheumatism
  • 57. What illness forced David-Néel to use crutches?
A) Articular rheumatism
B) Fever
C) Kidney failure
D) Digestive issues
  • 58. Where did David-Néel move in April 1957?
A) Tibet
B) Monaco
C) Paris
D) Digne
  • 59. Who became David-Néel's personal secretary in 1959?
A) Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet
B) The 6th Dalai Lama
C) Jacques Brosse
D) Paul Adam
  • 60. Which award did Alexandra David-Néel win in 1925?
A) Award Monique Berlioux
B) Prix Goncourt
C) Nobel Peace Prize
D) Legion of Honour
  • 61. Which institution awarded Alexandra David-Néel in 1925?
A) Royal Geographical Society
B) National Geographic Society
C) Académie des sports
D) Académie française
  • 62. How many 'Gloires du sport français' are listed, including Alexandra David-Néel?
A) 500
B) 100
C) 25
D) 287
  • 63. Who paid tribute to Alexandra David-Néel in 2006?
A) Alexandra David-Néel
B) Priscilla Telmon
C) Marie Curie
D) Monique Berlioux
  • 64. Which city was the final destination of the journey recounted in the 2006 expedition?
A) Paris
B) Beijing
C) Calcutta
D) Kathmandu
  • 65. From which country did the journey recounted by Priscilla Telmon begin?
A) Vietnam
B) France
C) India
D) Nepal
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