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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linda Gravelle do for Peach?
(a) Takes the children to her home to stay.
(b) Volunteers to go care for Beck since she was a doctor.
(c) Calls the governor for help.
(d) Calls her brother who is an Air Force General in Ramstein.

2. Who is Meg?
(a) A female climber from England.
(b) A female climber from Australia.
(c) Beck's daughter.
(d) Beck's wife.

3. Who went to find Beck and Yasuko after the storm abated?
(a) Rob Hall.
(b) Three Sherpas and Stuart Hutchinson.
(c) No one as the two were reported as dead.
(d) Jon Krakauer.

4. Where was Beck taken?
(a) A hospital in Ramstein, Germany.
(b) A hospital in Pokhra.
(c) A hospital in New Delhi.
(d) The American Embassy.

5. What is the setting at the opening of Chapter 2?
(a) The airport before the expedition.
(b) Back at Beck's home in Canada.
(c) Halfway up Mount Everest.
(d) Back at Beck's home in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peach do to help Beck?

2. Why is Peach frustrated?

3. What is the date when the book opens?

4. Beck lost the use of ____________.

5. What did Beck feel at base camp?

(see the answer key)

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