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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. After giving up on their original mission in Syangpoche, where did the climbing team decide to walk to in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter?
(a) Tibet.
(b) Kathmandu.
(c) Uemura.
(d) Lukla.

2. Who was the third person to unsuccessfully climb Mount Everest solo?
(a) Klavs Becker-Larsen.
(b) Edmund Hillary.
(c) Maurice Wilson.
(d) Earl Denman.

3. What was NOT one of the crops that the Tibetan economy was based on?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Corn.
(c) Peas.
(d) Barley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Oswald Oelz live?

2. In the Kanchung chapter as Messner and Bulle returned to Europe, how did Messner characterize the way Bulle was feeling?

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

4. In what year did Messner first ascend Everest?

5. When did the Dalai Lama flee from Tibet?

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