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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what altitude did the hotel in Syangpoche that the climbing team was headed to after leaving the Sherpa hut in the beginning of the book lie?
(a) 4,500 meters above sea level.
(b) 4,000 meters above sea level.
(c) 3,000 meters above sea level.
(d) 3,500 meters above sea level.

3. What happened to the first person to try to scale Everest alone?
(a) He was buried in an avalanche.
(b) He was never found.
(c) He froze to death.
(d) He starved to death.

4. 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) Three hours.
(b) Four hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Two hours.

5. When the British expedition returned to Everest in 1924, how many times were the climbers forced to abandon their higher-elevation camps and return to their base camps because of snowfall and extreme cold?
(a) Four times.
(b) One time.
(c) Two times.
(d) Three times.

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

7. What did Messner say he hated like the plague?
(a) Politics.
(b) Communism.
(c) Bureaucracy.
(d) Red tape.

8. 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) Tibet.
(b) Uemura.
(c) Lukla.
(d) Kathmandu.

9. What was the name of the second person to try to scale Everest alone?
(a) George Mallory.
(b) Earl Denman.
(c) Maurice Wilson.
(d) Edmund Hillary.

10. Who led the second British expedition to Mount Everest in 1922?
(a) Bruce Charles.
(b) Edward Finch.
(c) Charles Bruce.
(d) George Mallory.

11. 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) Mary Mallory.
(b) Shannon Strutt.
(c) Sarah Crawford.
(d) Elizabeth Hawley.

12. How far above sea level does Tibet lie?
(a) 2,000 meters.
(b) 3,000 meters.
(c) 4,000 meters.
(d) 1,000 meters.

13. 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) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

14. In 1924, what was the altitude reached by the British climber who set a record for the highest altitude reached climbing without oxygen?
(a) 8,572 meters.
(b) 8,126 meters.
(c) 8,621 meters.
(d) 8,738 meters.

15. How many of the expedition's porters were killed in the avalanche that occurred during the third attempt to reach Everest's summit?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book's opening quote, who could not allow Mount Everest to remain untouched?

2. In what year did Messner first ascend Everest?

3. What is the CMA?

4. In the Kanchung chapter, how many lectures was Messner scheduled to give during his European lecture tour?

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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