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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting at the opening of Chapter 2?
(a) Back at Beck's home in Canada.
(b) Back at Beck's home in the United States.
(c) Halfway up Mount Everest.
(d) The airport before the expedition.

2. How did Beck contact his family while at base camp?
(a) Cell phone.
(b) He never contacted his family.
(c) Letters that a messenger took to Katmandu.
(d) Fax.

3. Who is Madan?
(a) Beck's brother.
(b) The helicopter pilot.
(c) Beck's best friend.
(d) A medical doctor.

4. What did Beck's father do?
(a) An architect.
(b) A writer.
(c) An aviator.
(d) A physician.

5. From where did the call come that told Peach that Beck had been successfully airlifted off the mountain?
(a) Nepal.
(b) Australia.
(c) India.
(d) New Zealand.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what condition is Yasuko?

2. How did Peach's father die?

3. What face did the climbers ascend over?

4. Why did Beck feel guilty?

5. What bothered many people about Beck?

(see the answer key)

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