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

2. What was the nickname of Oswald Oelz?
(a) Butte.
(b) Major.
(c) Magic.
(d) Bulle.

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

4. Who was one of the first people that Messner told about his newly acquired permit from the CMA in the Kanchung chapter?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Nena.
(c) Jul.
(d) Bulle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was responsible for producing the film about Messner's Ama Dablam expedition?

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

4. Which member of the British expedition was the last to see the two climbers who were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?

5. When the CMA granted Messner a permit in the Kanchung chapter, approximately how much did Messner believe the expedition would cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Kanchung chapter, how did Messner characterize his homeland of South Tyrol?

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

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

4. Upon reading the article in the "Peking Review" in the Kanchung chapter, what became immediately clear to Messner?

5. According to the Kanchung chapter, the first person to want to scale Mount Everest alone was not a mountaineer. Why did this person believe he could scale Everest with no experience?

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

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

8. What did the British recognize as too difficult a route in the 1920s and 1930s that is still not climbed to this day?

9. 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?

10. As the book opens, what reason did Mallory give when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest a second time?

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