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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mount Everest—Fairytale and Reality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to tests, at what altitude could climbers survive at with the use of artificial oxygen?
(a) 9,600 meters.
(b) 9,100 meters.
(c) 8,000 meters.
(d) 7,500 meters.

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

3. According to Messner, what was the single most important source of foreign currency to Nepal?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Mountaineering expeditions.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Climbing fees.

4. What does dzong mean in Tibetan?
(a) Monsoon.
(b) Cave.
(c) Avalanche.
(d) Fort.

5. 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) Morshead and Mallory.
(b) Bruce and Finch.
(c) Mallory and Bruce.
(d) Finch and Morshead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT one of the crops that the Tibetan economy was based on?

2. In what year did Norton climb as far as the Great Couloir?

3. In 1924, which of the British climbers set a record for the highest altitude reached climbing without oxygen?

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

5. When Messner was questioned by the tourists at the hotel in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what did Messner say was a constant companion while climbing a mountain?

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