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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. As Messner and Nena gathered provisions in Peking in the Tibet chapter, they had an interpreter with them. What was the interpreter's name?
(a) Cheng.
(b) Tian.
(c) Tsao.
(d) Zhang.

2. Who was the first person to ever want to scale Mount Everest alone?
(a) George Mallory.
(b) Maurice Wilson.
(c) George Bruce.
(d) Edmund Hillary.

3. A few days after being forced to descend Everest because of the storm, which two team members were able to ascend to 8,321 meters during the second British expedition?
(a) Finch and Morshead.
(b) Mallory and Bruce.
(c) Bruce and Finch.
(d) Morshead and Mallory.

4. Who were the first group of foreign mountaineers to undertake an expedition in Tibet after the creation of the People's Republic?
(a) The British.
(b) The Swiss.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Americans.

5. What technical aid did Messner consent to use during his climbs?
(a) Helicopter.
(b) Ice axe.
(c) Oxygen gear.
(d) Expansion bolts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the British expedition returned to Everest in 1924, how many times were the climbers forced to abandon their higher-elevation camps and return to their base camps because of snowfall and extreme cold?

2. As Messner returned to Europe to begin his lecture tour in the Kanchung chapter, how many weeks had he just spent in Nepal?

3. When an airplane instructor was teaching Wilson to fly, he knew that Wilson would never make a good pilot. What two qualities did Wilson possess according to his teacher?

4. What was the name of the Tibetan who helped the first person who wanted to scale Everest alone enter Tibet illegally?

5. For the Chinese assault on Mount Everest in 1975, how many Chinese and Tibetans were part of the expedition?

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