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

2. What did the camp do when Beck arrived?
(a) Began warming his frostbite areas.
(b) Radioed down the mountain.
(c) Got hot food and liquids in him.
(d) Put him into a medical coma for carrying off the mountain.

3. Who is Rob?
(a) Beck's guide.
(b) Beck's son.
(c) Beck's friend from Texas who is also climbing.
(d) Another first-time climber.

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

5. What had Peach planned to tell Beck after his climbing Mount Everest before Beck was injured?
(a) She was seeing another man.
(b) She was moving to California to accept a job.
(c) The marriage was over.
(d) They had to go to counseling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unusual about the conversation with Beck on Monday from Peach's point of view?

2. Who is with Beck Weathers?

3. What did Peach feel about her nickname later in her marriage?

4. How low did the temperature go where Beck trapped?

5. Where did Dan meet Beck?

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