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Silk Road Nick Middletion

Textual Question and Their Answers

A. Understanding the text                           (Answer in 30 words)


1. The article has been tilled "silk Road."
2.Tibetan mastiffs were popular in China's imperial courts.
3. The author's experience at Hor was in stark contrast to earlier accounts of the place.
4.The author was disappointed with Darchen.
5. The author that his positive thinking strategy worked well after all.

II. Briefly comment on
1. The purpose of the author's jurney to Mount Kailash.
2. The author's physical condition in Darchen.
3. The author's meeting with Norbu.
4. Tsetan's support to the author during the hurney
5.'As a Buddhist, he knew that it didn't really matter if I passed away, but he thought if would be bad for business."

B. Talking about the text
1. The sensitive behaviour of hill-folk
2. The reasons why people willingly undergo the travels of difficult journeys.
3. The accounts of exotic places in legends and books and the reality.

Additional Questions and their Answers

A. Short Answer Type Questions
1.Why did the author take the short-cut inspitite of the high mountain passes?
2. What did the author notice in the vast open plains after leaving Ravu?
3. What sights did they encounter in the rocky wilderness?
4. How did the author react to the Tibetan mastiff?
5. Why did Tsetan stop the car and jump out of it?
6. Why did the author complain of headache? How did he get relief?
7. Give, according to the author, a description of the top of the pass
8. Why, did you think was the author perturbed at the loud his emitted by the car?
9. What do you learn about the salt on the other side of the pass?
10. What incident does the author remenber as they reached the small town, Hor?
11. What id the importance of Hor? How did the author feel there?
12. What sort of experience did the author have at Hor?
13. How does the author recount his experience at the Darchen medical college?
14. What qualities of Norbu do you think made him an ideal companion of the author?
15. "the author gives a picturesque description of Darchen's  only cafe." How for do you agree with this statement.
16. Comment on the topographic variation that the narrator underwent as he went to Mount Kailash.
17. Describe the experience of the narrator in witnessing the snow both as dangerous as well as beautiful?
18. What were the difficulties that the group faced in Hor?
19. Comment on the miserable night of the narrator in Daechen?
20. What bought immense relief to the narrator after the met Norbu?



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