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

2. According to the book's opening quote, who could not allow Mount Everest to remain untouched?
(a) Men with any courage for challenges.
(b) Men with something to prove.
(c) Men with any sense of adventure.
(d) Men with any zest for mountaineering.

3. How many years of experience did the man who led the second British expedition to Mount Everest have?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Forty years.

4. 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) Kathmandu.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Lukla.
(d) Uemura.

5. According to Messner, at what age he did begin climbing?
(a) Thirteen years old.
(b) Ten years old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) Seven years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. How high was the assault camp established by the 1924 British expedition?

2. Where did Oswald Oelz live?

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

4. What was the name of the hotel in Syangpoche that the climbing team was headed to after leaving the Sherpa hut in the beginning of the book?

5. How many of the expedition's porters were killed in the avalanche that occurred during the third attempt to reach Everest's summit?

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