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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. Who said he just kept moving and didn't look back when he saw Namba couldn't stay upright in order to get back to camp?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) Neil Beidleman
(c) Beck Weathers
(d) John Krakauer

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

3. Who was killed in an avalanche on Everest the next year?
(a) Ang Dorje
(b) Anatoli Bourkeev
(c) Lopsang
(d) Mike Groom

4. Who is not wearing his goggles, although he is quickly reminded to do so?
(a) Neil Beidleman
(b) Stuart Hutchison
(c) Mike Groom
(d) John Krakauer

5. Who is thought to be dead at this point of the story, although it is revealed later to not be the case?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Beck Weathers
(c) Mike Groom
(d) David Brashears

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is severely injured in a bus accident while in his native country?

2. What does the team Krakauer saw in his camera lens come back to Camp Four to report?

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

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

5. Krakauer makes his way to the top of __________ where he must wait for descending climbers to pass.

Short Essay Questions

1. What risks go up as the oxygen in Krakauer's tank begins to decrease?

2. What does Brashears radio into camp as many of the climbers are at Camp Two?

3. What does Krakauer tell Hutchison to do?

4. What is the eventual fate of Anatoli Bourkeev?

5. Why does Krakauer move quickly on his way up to Camp Three?

6. What does Gau do in violation of his promise?

7. What has happened to Weathers, according to Hutchison's discovery?

8. What does Hutchison tell Krakauer which surprises him?

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

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

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