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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North Col—Stuck in the Monsoon Snow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the Chinese assault on Mount Everest in 1975, how many Chinese and Tibetans were part of the expedition?
(a) 300.
(b) 400.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

2. Who was the first person to ever want to scale Mount Everest alone?
(a) George Bruce.
(b) George Mallory.
(c) Maurice Wilson.
(d) Edmund Hillary.

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

4. A few days after being forced to descend Everest because of the storm, which two team members were able to ascend to 8,321 meters during the second British expedition?
(a) Bruce and Finch.
(b) Mallory and Bruce.
(c) Finch and Morshead.
(d) Morshead and Mallory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had no Tibetans ever considered climbing the gigantic summits that were all around them?

2. When the CMA granted Messner a permit in the Kanchung chapter, which mountain did the permit apply to?

3. On what day did the Chinese expedition's assault team finally reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975?

4. Who discovered that the North Ridge was the ideal approach to the North-East Shoulder?

5. Halfway through Messner's lecture tour in the Kanchung chapter, who slipped the "Peking Review" into Messner's hand?

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