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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who assembles Fischer's team in order to continue their descent?
(a) John Taske
(b) Neil Beidleman
(c) Mike Groom
(d) John Krakauer

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

4. Who radios in that he is very tired when he is at the summit, then complains about how he doesn't feel well?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Scott Fischer
(c) Lopsang
(d) Doug Hansen

5. Who finally goes on to attach the lines that are necessary to allow the climbers up the mountain?
(a) Andy Harris
(b) Beck Weathers
(c) Neil Beidleman
(d) Rob Hall

Short Answer Questions

1. From what side has the team in #151 ascended Everest?

2. Who evacuated with Fox via helicopter from Mount Everest?

3. Who almost falls off the side of the rock face because he tries to climb before the ropes are secured?

4. Who gives the injured person in #137 his spare canister of oxygen?

5. Who is the only other member of Hall's team, besides Krakauer, that is still able to climb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Krakauer realize about the hiker he thought to be Harris?

2. What does David Brashears note about the team Beidleman has taken into Camp Three?

3. Why does Mike Groom give Krakauer his tank of oxygen?

4. Why does Pittman fall to the ground as they are approaching the summit?

5. What is the eventual fate of Anatoli Bourkeev?

6. What are the physical effects of Weathers' miraculous rescue and recovery from Everest?

7. What does Fischer do with his oxygen tank when he begins to make his descent from the summit?

8. What do the Japanese climbers do when they find the bodies of the Indian climbers?

9. What does Groom say about the tanks of oxygen at the South Summit, even though Harris was mistaken about this fact?

10. What does Krakauer tell Hutchison to do?

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