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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 is waiting for Fischer when he reaches the Everest summit because he feels indebted to him?
(a) Lopsang
(b) Doug Hansen
(c) Mike Groom
(d) No one

2. Who discovers the bodies of the team mentioned in #151 the next day?
(a) Japanese team
(b) Krakauer
(c) Fischer
(d) Hall

3. Who was supposed to have set up lines along the pathway up to the summit?
(a) Hall and Fischer
(b) Sherpas from each team
(c) Mike Groom
(d) Anatoli Bourkeev

4. Who is the only other member of Hall's team, besides Krakauer, that is still able to climb?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Stuart Hutchison
(c) Mike Groom
(d) Beck Weathers

5. Who has had his right arm amputated below the elbow?
(a) John Krakauer
(b) Beck Weathers
(c) Mike Groom
(d) Doug Hansen

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one person Krakauer is not able to interview for the article he wrote for the magazine?

2. Who, besides Harris, is said to be missing at this point of the story?

3. From what side has the team in #151 ascended Everest?

4. Who is thought to be dead at this point of the story, although it is revealed later to not be the case?

5. Whose death has become a national story in his country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What risks go up as the oxygen in Krakauer's tank begins to decrease?

2. What happens to Krakauer and other climbers from Hall's group when they fly back to Katmandu?

3. What does Hutchison tell Krakauer which surprises him?

4. What does David Brashears note about the team Beidleman has taken into Camp Three?

5. Why does Krakauer move quickly on his way up to Camp Three?

6. What are the physical effects of Weathers' miraculous rescue and recovery from Everest?

7. What do the Japanese climbers do when they find the bodies of the Indian climbers?

8. Which route did the Indian team take in order to reach the summit?

9. Why does Pittman fall to the ground as they are approaching the summit?

10. What is the eventual fate of Anatoli Bourkeev?

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