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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the summit ridge and needs help as per his radio call?

2. 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?

3. Who is waiting for Fischer when he reaches the Everest summit because he feels indebted to him?

4. Who was told via a phone at Base Camp and Hutchison's message that Harris had made it down safely into Camp?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Which route did the Indian team take in order to reach the summit?

5. What does Krakauer notice about the air in Seattle?

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

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

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

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

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

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