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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. When the climbing team woke up in the Sherpa hut at the beginning of Messner's book, what season was it?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

2. In what year did the People's Republic of China invade Tibet and end the Dalai Lama's rule?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

3. Which member of the British expedition was the last to see the two climbers who were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?
(a) Mallory.
(b) Nema.
(c) Irvine.
(d) Odell.

4. Which two climbers were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?
(a) Mallory and Irvine.
(b) Irvine and Odell.
(c) Nema and Odell.
(d) Mallory and Nema.

5. How high did the second British expedition reach before being forced to descend the mountain because of a growing storm?
(a) 8,315 meters.
(b) 8,230 meters.
(c) 8,170 meters.
(d) 8,020 meters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does dzong mean in Tibetan?

2. According to what Messner learned from his journalist friend in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, who received permission for a solo assent of Everest during the winter of 1980-81?

3. How many porters lost their lives when the climbers forced to abandon their higher-elevation camps and return to their base camps because of snowfall and extreme cold in 1924?

4. According to Messner, what was the single most important source of foreign currency to Nepal?

5. According to Messner, at what age he did begin climbing?

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