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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Everest Base Camp: April 12, 1996 - 17,600 Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cruising altitude of the plane that makes Krakauer realize how absurd it seems to climb that distance as it is so close to Everest's summit measurement?
(a) 50,000 feet
(b) 30,000 feet
(c) 20,000 feet
(d) 35,000 feet

2. What is Harris' wife's occupation?
(a) Novelist
(b) Physician
(c) Veterinarian
(d) Writer

3. Fischer is from _________.
(a) Portland
(b) Spokane
(c) Boston
(d) Seattle

4. How many continents' highest points did Rob Hall climb in a period of seven months once?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 7

5. Who is described as being from New Zealand, having a full beard, and being gregarious and funny?
(a) Anatoli Bourkeev
(b) Andy Harris
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Rob Hall

Short Answer Questions

1. Harris and his wife helped run a clinic at __________ which is on the way to Base Camp.

2. Which magazine does Krakauer query in order to climb Mount Everest for a story?

3. Which of the guides have already become ill as a result of the conditions at Lobuje?

4. In 1852, who takes a complete survey of India in order to find out more about this land that is their colony now?

5. What is Andy Harris' wife's name, as Krakauer finds out from hiking with him?

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