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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tibet—The Yak Nomads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Tibet chapter, what "sport" did Bulle once liken mountaineering to?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Rugby.
(d) Pain.

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

3. In what year did Messner first ascend Everest?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1972.

4. 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) Mary Mallory.
(b) Elizabeth Hawley.
(c) Sarah Crawford.
(d) Shannon Strutt.

5. 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 Swiss.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Nepalese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Potala that Messner spied sitting on the Marpori in the Tibet chapter?i

2. When Nena and Messner built their main camp after leaving the Rongbuk monastery in the Tibet chapter, at what altitude were they?

3. In the Tibet chapter, who did Nena send back to Shigatsa because of altitude sickness?

4. In what year did the proclamation of the "Autonomous Region of Tibet" occur?

5. Who was the first person to ever want to scale Mount Everest alone?

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