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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Messner was questioned by the tourists at the hotel in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what did Messner say was a constant companion while climbing a mountain?
(a) Courage.
(b) Danger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hunger.

2. What did Messner liken the city of Peking to in the Kanchung chapter?
(a) A field.
(b) A warehouse.
(c) A mall.
(d) A laboratory.

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

4. In what year did the proclamation of the "Autonomous Region of Tibet" occur?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

5. In what year did Messner first ascend Everest?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1978.

6. In what year was the second solo attempt on Everest undertaken?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1951.

7. 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?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

8. How many people were in the second expedition to Mount Everest in 1922?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Six.

9. After giving up on their original mission in Syangpoche, where did the climbing team decide to walk to in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter?
(a) Uemura.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Lukla.
(d) Kathmandu.

10. How many illegal attempts to climb Mount Everest solo were undertaken between 1921 and 1949?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

11. When the climbing team woke up in the Sherpa hut at the beginning of Messner's book, how long did they have to reach Syangpoche?
(a) One hour.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Four hours.

12. 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?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) Two hours.

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

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

15. What was the name of the journalist that had been living in Kathmandu for over twenty years and knew practically everything about the region?
(a) Sarah Crawford.
(b) Shannon Strutt.
(c) Elizabeth Hawley.
(d) Mary Mallory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the first group of foreign mountaineers to undertake an expedition in Tibet after the creation of the People's Republic?

2. When an airplane instructor was teaching Wilson to fly, he knew that Wilson would never make a good pilot. What two qualities did Wilson possess according to his teacher?

3. Who owned the hotel in Syangpoche that the climbing team stayed in after leaving the Sherpa hut in the beginning of the book?

4. Where did Oswald Oelz live?

5. What was the name of the woman that Messner was married to?

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