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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beck forget to do for their wedding night?
(a) Bring the ring.
(b) Reserve a taxi.
(c) Reserve a room.
(d) Bring the airline tickets.

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

3. Who are the Sherpas?
(a) Nepali climbing guides.
(b) A group of climbers from Russia.
(c) A family that lived near the border of India and Nepal.
(d) A group of monks from Tibet.

4. What advice did the group at base camp receive?
(a) To ask Beck if he wanted to be given a morphine overdose since he would die in agony otherwise.
(b) To leave Beck since he would die anyway.
(c) To keep Beck from warming up and a doctor would be there soon.
(d) To ready Beck for a rescue sled team.

5. Who came by and offered Beck assistance?
(a) Jon Krakauer.
(b) Steve Mills.
(c) No one.
(d) Two Sherpas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Beck's team make High Camp on the South Col?

3. Where did Beck start school for the first grade?

4. Where did Beck go hunting on a family vacation?

5. What did Beck say he enjoyed about climbing?

(see the answer key)

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