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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. How high was the assault camp established by the 1924 British expedition?
(a) 8,145 meters.
(b) 8,270 meters.
(c) 8,000 meters.
(d) 8,325 meters.

2. In the third attempt to reach Everest's summit, which two members of the British expedition were buried in an avalanche?
(a) Mallory and Morshead.
(b) Bruce and Finch.
(c) Bruce and Morshead.
(d) Mallory and Somervell.

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

4. How large is Tibet?
(a) 1.0 million square kilometers.
(b) 1.2 million square kilometers.
(c) 0.8 million square kilometers.
(d) 1.4 million square kilometers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the British expedition returned to Everest in 1924, when did the team arrive?

2. How much did each portable oxygen system weigh that the British expedition's climbers carried?

3. 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?

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

5. With whom did Messner make his first Everest ascent?

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