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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the woman that Messner was married to?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Kato.
(c) Nena.
(d) Uschi.

2. Who had a special camera with him on expeditions in 1922 and 1924?
(a) John Noel.
(b) Greg Mallory.
(c) Joseph Grange.
(d) Peter Habeler.

3. According to what Messner learned from his journalist friend in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, who received permission for a solo assent of Everest during the winter of 1980-81?
(a) Uemura.
(b) Harrison.
(c) Mallory.
(d) Hawley.

4. In the third attempt to reach Everest's summit, which two members of the British expedition were buried in an avalanche?
(a) Mallory and Somervell.
(b) Mallory and Morshead.
(c) Bruce and Finch.
(d) Bruce and Morshead.

5. Where did Oswald Oelz live?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Seattle.
(c) London.
(d) Madrid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Messner liken the city of Peking to in the Kanchung chapter?

2. Which two climbers were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?

3. How many British attempts to ascend Mount Everest were undertaken between 1921 and 1949?

4. Which member of the British expedition was the last to see the two climbers who were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?

5. How large is Tibet?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the climbing team woke up in the Sherpa hut in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why was the team headed to Syangpoche?

2. What did the British recognize as too difficult a route in the 1920s and 1930s that is still not climbed to this day?

3. Why did the second person to attempt a solo ascent of Everest decline to use oxygen gear?

4. In 1922 and 1924, the British set up their base camp in the shelter of a moraine under the end of the Rongbuk Glacier. Why was this spot considered ideal?

5. How did Captain Finch originally test his bold plan back in England?

6. When Messner referred to "fair means" in climbing in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what was he referring to?

7. Because it lies so far above sea level, what is Tibet known as?

8. In the Kanchung chapter, what did the article Messner read in the "Peking Review" state?

9. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why did no one understand the local people better than the leader of the second British expedition to Mount Everest in 1922?

10. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why was each hour of each day so precious to the second British expedition to Mount Everest?

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