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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) Shisha Pangma.
(b) Jurgen Lehmann.
(c) Sepia Tian-Chi.
(d) Joachim Hoelzgen.

2. Which two climbers were lost on Everest on June 8, 1924?
(a) Irvine and Odell.
(b) Mallory and Nema.
(c) Nema and Odell.
(d) Mallory and Irvine.

3. 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) Kathmandu.
(d) Lukla.

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

5. As Messner prepareed for his solo climb in 1980 in the Kanchung chapter, for how long had Messner been divorced?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT one of the crops that the Tibetan economy was based on?

2. In 1924, what was the altitude reached by the British climber who set a record for the highest altitude reached climbing without oxygen?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As the book opens, Messner reflects on his first ascent of Everest. What did the mountain mean to Messner?

2. What was the bold plan for the second expedition to Everest that Captain Finch came up with?

3. According to Messner in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, what were the primary motives of the Himalayan mountaineer?

4. Describe what the oxygen apparatus of the 1920's looked like.

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. According to Messner in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, why was Oelz depressed as the team packed for their trip to Syangpoche?

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

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

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

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

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