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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month is Krakauer's article about the trip published in Outside?
(a) July
(b) August
(c) September
(d) October

2. Which leader of the South African group does not appear to be doing well?
(a) Bruce Hammond
(b) Brent Rumnan
(c) Bruce Herrod
(d) Brian Hillard

3. Who is the one person Krakauer is not able to interview for the article he wrote for the magazine?
(a) Gau
(b) Beck Weathers
(c) Martin Adams
(d) David Brashears

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

5. 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) A ridge
(d) Heavy clouds

6. Who asks Krakauer to clear the ice from his oxygen equipment in order to make sure it's functioning?
(a) Beck Weathers
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Andy Harris
(d) Doug Hansen

7. Who blames himself for bringing bad luck to Fischer?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Lopsang
(c) Ang Dorje
(d) Mike Groom

8. Who is severely injured in a bus accident while in his native country?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) Anatoli Bourkeev
(c) Stuart Hutchison
(d) Lopsang

9. What is Krakauer handed when he arrives in Base Camp, causing him to sit down and realize just what he has been through?
(a) Computer
(b) Beer
(c) Towel
(d) Phone

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

11. Who is concerned that neither Fischer nor any of his other clients have reached the top at this point?
(a) Neil Beidleman
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Mike Groom

12. Which climber is found to be still breathing, but very near death. much to the surprise of everyone?
(a) Scott Fischer
(b) Namba
(c) Andy Harris
(d) Rob Hall

13. Who continues to wait for Hansen at the summit because he wants to make sure someone else arrives?
(a) Stuart Hutchison
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) No one

14. Who is on the summit ridge and needs help as per his radio call?
(a) Scott Fischer
(b) Mike Groom
(c) Rob Hall
(d) Doug Hansen

15. Who wakes Krakauer and tells him that Harris is not in his tent, shocking Krakauer?
(a) Stuart Hutchison
(b) Scott Fischer
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Rob Hall

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not wearing his goggles, although he is quickly reminded to do so?

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

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

4. How many people are left of the original 11 team members on Hall's team?

5. Where did the team wait until the lines were put into place?

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