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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bothered many people about Beck?
(a) His looks.
(b) His feeling sorry for himself.
(c) His not trying to save others that died on the mountain.
(d) His saying that no one should try to climb Everest.

2. Why did Beck feel guilty?
(a) His brother lost his job when he came to help Beck in Nepal.
(b) He put his wife through such emotional anguish.
(c) He survived when others did not.
(d) He was crippled and would not be able to support his family anymore.

3. What did Beck's father do?
(a) An aviator.
(b) An architect.
(c) A physician.
(d) A writer.

4. What surprised Peach while Beck was in base camp before he even started the climb?
(a) He wrote and said it would be his last climb.
(b) He sent her faxes.
(c) He called her.
(d) He wrote her two letters.

5. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?
(a) He is unable to get out of his sleeping bag.
(b) The winds from the storm.
(c) He gets out in order to get more food.
(d) Two medical doctors arrive and take him out.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Beck compare facing death?

2. What did people at base camp tell Peach?

3. Between what two points of view does Chapter 13 switch?

4. What did Beck's father use to combat negative feelings?

5. What is Peach's real name?

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