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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. What was NOT one of the crops that the Tibetan economy was based on?
(a) Barley.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Corn.
(d) Peas.

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

3. In what year did Messner and Oelz successfully scale Mount Everest?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1979.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were in the second expedition to Mount Everest in 1922?

2. How far above sea level does Tibet lie?

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

4. Who had a special camera with him on expeditions in 1922 and 1924?

5. When the climbing team woke up in the Sherpa hut at the beginning of Messner's book, what season was it?

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