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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 21-33, Mount Everest—Fairytale and Reality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of Oswald Oelz?
(a) Major.
(b) Magic.
(c) Bulle.
(d) Butte.

2. Who discovered that the North Ridge was the ideal approach to the North-East Shoulder?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Messner.
(c) Mallory.
(d) Habeler.

3. After the uprising of March 1959, how many Tibetans fled to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 15,000.

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

5. With whom did Messner make his first Everest ascent?
(a) Peter Mallory.
(b) Peter Masters.
(c) Peter Habeler.
(d) Peter Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large is Tibet?

2. After giving up on their original mission in Syangpoche in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, how far of a walk did the climbing team undertake to reach their new destination?

3. In the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, Messner needed to leave Nepal because he had a lecture tour beginning. Where did Messner's European lecture tour start?

4. How many British attempts to ascend Mount Everest were undertaken between 1921 and 1949?

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

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