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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Herzog and his team meet to decide on May 14?

2. Which of the following roles did the expedition not arrange to fill with a specialist?

3. What region were the climbers thinking about climbing?

4. Who offered to lead Herzog and his team to the Tilicho Pass?

5. Which of the following did Herzog find at Base Camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the team's first attempts to reconnoiter Dhaulagiri.

2. Describe Herzog's technique for running the May 14 meeting.

3. Describe Herzog and his team's visit from the Buddhist Lama.

4. Describe the approach to Tukucha.

5. Describe the second day of the exploratory expedition up the spur.

6. What caused the spur route to be abandoned?

7. What trail did Herzog establish the day after setting up Camp III?

8. What various types of danger did Herzog and his team encounter above Camp II?

9. Describe Herzog and his team's progress en route to Camp II.

10. What did Herzog and his team find when they found the Tilicho Pass?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Can you describe the significance of Herzog's invitation to Ang-Tharkay to summit with him and Lachenal? What different constituencies would interpret that gesture, and how would they be apt to view it?

Essay Topic 2

How did members of the expedition to Annapurna break new ground through discoveries or pioneering in fields of knowledge?

Essay Topic 3

Where was the expedition to Annapurna in the history of mountaineering? What was the accomplishment attained by Herzog and his team? What was the team's legacy?

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