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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beck decide to do instead of suicide?
(a) Quit his job.
(b) Climb.
(c) Bike across the United States.
(d) Divorce his wife.

2. What did Beck ask one man who was on the Aconcagua climb with Beck?
(a) Why Mount Everest is so difficult.
(b) What it was like to climb Everest.
(c) If the man had ever climbed.
(d) If the man ever felt depressed while climbing.

3. What did some of Beck's friends realize about Beck's climbing hobby?
(a) It was a substitute for an interesting job.
(b) It was a subsitute for living with his family.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It might be getting dangerous.

4. Where was Beck born?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Florida.
(d) Alabama.

5. In what year did Beck and Peach meet?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1974.

6. What did Beck enjoy doing after they moved to Dallas when he was not working?
(a) Meeting his buddies at the bars.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Building model planes.
(d) Running.

7. With what was Aconcagua rife?
(a) Feral cats.
(b) Wild dogs.
(c) Filth and disease.
(d) Illamas.

8. How did Beck's brother Dan energize himself?
(a) Fanatasy.
(b) Activity.
(c) Acting.
(d) Drugs.

9. What happened to Beck as a freshman in college?
(a) He tried out for the tennis team and did not make it.
(b) He slipped into a depression.
(c) He tried out for the crew team and did not make it.
(d) He tried out for the lacrosse team and did not make it.

10. Between what two points of view does Chapter 13 switch?
(a) Beck and his son.
(b) Beck and Rob Hall.
(c) Beck and his daughter.
(d) Peach and Beck.

11. What did Beck learn on Longs Peak?
(a) How to quit gracefully.
(b) The meaning of perseverance.
(c) How to climb rocks.
(d) How to conserve one's energy.

12. Whom did Peach and the children enjoy having on their vacations?
(a) No one.
(b) Howie.
(c) Peach's mother.
(d) Dan.

13. Where did Beck spend his early years?
(a) Korea.
(b) Germany.
(c) Philippines.
(d) Japan.

14. Where did Beck decide to attend college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Purdue.
(c) Midwestern State.
(d) Mississippi State.

15. What was Peace thinking about while Beck was out climbing?
(a) Her children missing their dad.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) Her career.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Peach turn to for comfort after Muffin died?

2. What did Peach major in during college?

3. Where did Beck decide to climb after his climb in Colorado?

4. How old was Beck when he became President in number 111?

5. Who is Howard?

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