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

2. Who almost falls off the side of the rock face because he tries to climb before the ropes are secured?
(a) Namba
(b) Doug Hansen
(c) John Krakauer
(d) Scott Fischer

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

4. Who goes with the climbers mentioned in #170?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Rob Hall
(d) John Taske

5. Scott Fischer and who else are the last climbers to come up Hillary Step?
(a) Doug Hansen
(b) Beck Weathers
(c) John Krakauer
(d) Andy Harris

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Krakauer handed when he arrives in Base Camp, causing him to sit down and realize just what he has been through?

2. Which climbers were found ill, but alive, although no one stopped to help them?

3. What is obscuring the actual peak for the team climbing in #151, making it look much closer than it actually is?

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

5. Where does the bottleneck of climbers form as the team descends Mount Everest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to Krakauer and other climbers from Hall's group when they fly back to Katmandu?

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

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

7. What does Krakauer tell Hutchison to do?

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

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

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

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