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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 had a special camera with him on expeditions in 1922 and 1924?
(a) Peter Habeler.
(b) Greg Mallory.
(c) John Noel.
(d) Joseph Grange.

2. 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) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

3. According to what Messner learned from his journalist friend in the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, who received permission for a solo assent of Everest during the winter of 1980-81?
(a) Hawley.
(b) Mallory.
(c) Uemura.
(d) Harrison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the climbing team woke up in the Sherpa hut at the beginning of Messner's book, what season was it?

2. When the British expedition returned to Everest in 1924, when did the team arrive?

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

4. According to Messner, what was the single most important source of foreign currency to Nepal?

5. In what year did Norton climb as far as the Great Couloir?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When the climbing team reached Syangpoche in the early pages of the Mount Everest-Fairytale and Reality chapter, they were unsuccessful in completing their task. What was their task and why were they unsuccessful?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. How did the first person to want to scale Mount Everest alone first learn about Mount Everest?

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

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

9. In 1922 and 1924, the British set up their base camp in the shelter of a moraine under the end of the Rongbuk Glacier. Why was this spot considered ideal?

10. In the Kanchung chapter, what did the article Messner read in the "Peking Review" state?

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