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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was responsible for producing the film about Messner's Ama Dablam expedition?
(a) Sepia Tian-Chi.
(b) Joachim Hoelzgen.
(c) Shisha Pangma.
(d) Jurgen Lehmann.

2. What was the primary occupation of Oswald Oelz?
(a) A moutaineer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) An attorney.
(d) A teacher.

3. Where did the first person to want to scale Mount Everest meet the Indian yogis who impressed the man with their teachings about self-discipline?
(a) On a mail boat.
(b) At a base camp.
(c) In a plane.
(d) On a train.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the third person to unsuccessfully climb Mount Everest solo?

3. What does dzong mean in Tibetan?

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?

5. What was the name of the Tibetan who helped the first person who wanted to scale Everest alone enter Tibet illegally?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Captain Finch originally test his bold plan back in England?

2. How did Messner describe the region of Solo Khumba in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter?

3. What did Messner suspect was the main reason that men often invited him to talk over a beer after hearing Messner's lecture?

4. Because it lies so far above sea level, what is Tibet known as?

5. When a tourist at the hotel asked Oelz why he climbed Everest after learning that he and Messner had reached the summit in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, how did Oelz respond?

6. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why did no one understand the local people better than the leader of the second British expedition to Mount Everest in 1922?

7. When Messner referred to "fair means" in climbing in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what was he referring to?

8. What unusual item was a standard item placed in the rooms by the hotel in Syangpoche in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter?

9. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why was each hour of each day so precious to the second British expedition to Mount Everest?

10. Why did the second person to attempt a solo ascent of Everest decline to use oxygen gear?

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