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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 21-33, Mount Everest—Fairytale and Reality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what altitude did the hotel in Syangpoche that the climbing team was headed to after leaving the Sherpa hut in the beginning of the book lie?
(a) 4,000 meters above sea level.
(b) 3,000 meters above sea level.
(c) 3,500 meters above sea level.
(d) 4,500 meters above sea level.

2. In what year did Norton climb as far as the Great Couloir?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1922.

3. Who owned the hotel in Syangpoche that the climbing team stayed in after leaving the Sherpa hut in the beginning of the book?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Swiss.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Nepalese.

4. In what year did Messner and Oelz successfully scale Mount Everest?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1976.

5. What was the name of the journalist that had been living in Kathmandu for over twenty years and knew practically everything about the region?
(a) Sarah Crawford.
(b) Shannon Strutt.
(c) Elizabeth Hawley.
(d) Mary Mallory.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Messner make his first Everest ascent?

2. Who discovered that the North Ridge was the ideal approach to the North-East Shoulder?

3. In the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, Messner needed to leave Nepal because he had a lecture tour beginning. Where did Messner's European lecture tour start?

4. How many illegal attempts to climb Mount Everest solo were undertaken between 1921 and 1949?

5. At the time Messner was writing the book, how long had it been since Nepal was forbidden to foreigners?

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