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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. How large is Tibet?
(a) 1.4 million square kilometers.
(b) 0.8 million square kilometers.
(c) 1.2 million square kilometers.
(d) 1.0 million square kilometers.

2. What was the name of the Tibetan who helped the first person who wanted to scale Everest alone enter Tibet illegally?
(a) Karma Paul.
(b) Sherpa Jan.
(c) Wilson Tsering.
(d) Rinzing Tewang.

3. 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) 3,500 meters above sea level.
(b) 3,000 meters above sea level.
(c) 4,000 meters above sea level.
(d) 4,500 meters above sea level.

4. After the uprising of March 1959, how many Tibetans fled to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 30,000.

5. To whom does Messner attribute the quote that begins his book?
(a) Sir Francis Youngman.
(b) Sir Francis Young.
(c) Sir Francis Younghusband.
(d) Sir Francis Younglin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Oswald Oelz live?

2. What does dzong mean in Tibetan?

3. How many years of experience did the man who led the second British expedition to Mount Everest have?

4. How many people were involved with the first group of foreign mountaineers to undertake an expedition in Tibet after the creation of the People's Republic?

5. What happened to the first person to try to scale Everest alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. As Bulle returned to his "real" life in the Kanchung chapter, he threw himself into his job. What was Bulle's primary motivation for taking up his work with such enthusiasm?

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

4. How did Messner describe the region of Solo Khumba in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter?

5. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what were the primary motives of the Himalayan mountaineer?

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

7. As the book opens, Messner reflects on his first ascent of Everest. What did the mountain mean to Messner?

8. As the book opens, what reason did Mallory give when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest a second time?

9. In the Kanchung chapter, how did Messner characterize his homeland of South Tyrol?

10. Describe what the oxygen apparatus of the 1920's looked like.

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