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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Krakauer want to avoid by moving quickly up the face on the one rope?
(a) Fatigue
(b) A long line of climbers
(c) Darkness
(d) Talking

2. What does the team Krakauer saw in his camera lens come back to Camp Four to report?
(a) Bad weather prevented them from reaching the top
(b) They reached the summit
(c) They lost 2 men on the team
(d) Illness throughout their team

3. Whose directions does Krakauer decide to follow in his search for missing climbers?
(a) Hall's
(b) Bourkeev's
(c) Wilton's
(d) Fischer's

4. How many people are left of the original 11 team members on Hall's team?
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 7

5. Who is NOT one of the climbers that decides to turn back when they realize they will reach the summit later than they should?
(a) Doug Hansen
(b) Stuart Hutchison
(c) John Taske
(d) Lou Kasischke

6. Where did the team wait until the lines were put into place?
(a) Icefall
(b) Camp Three
(c) South Col
(d) Balcony

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

8. Who removes his mask and does not use it as they begin their descent?
(a) Doug Hansen
(b) Scott Fischer
(c) Rob Hall
(d) Andy Harris

9. Whose death has become a national story in his country?
(a) Namba
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Scott Fischer

10. Whose family does Krakauer meet at the airport, returning his gear to them?
(a) Fischer's
(b) Hall's
(c) Weathers'
(d) Hansen's

11. Who admits he perhaps did not always speak up to the other guides when he should have?
(a) Neil Beidleman
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Rob Hall
(d) Beck Weathers

12. Which climber is openly scorned and hounded by journalists?
(a) Sandy Pittman
(b) Lopsang
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) John Krakauer

13. What expedition also has just reached the top at about 4:00 P.M.?
(a) American
(b) Indian
(c) Chinese
(d) South African

14. Who does Krakauer ask to turn down his tank of oxygen in order to conserve oxygen?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Mike Groom
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Andy Harris

15. What is obscuring the actual peak for the team climbing in #151, making it look much closer than it actually is?
(a) Shadows
(b) Snowfall
(c) Heavy clouds
(d) A ridge

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wakes Krakauer and tells him that Harris is not in his tent, shocking Krakauer?

2. The Japanese team was quoted as saying, "Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford ________."

3. Which team does Krakauer think he sees through his camera lens as he looks up at the summit?

4. What does Lopsang give to Fischer to help him feel better?

5. Who was supposed to have set up lines along the pathway up to the summit?

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