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

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

3. How did Beck feel about his role as a father?
(a) He had been a very good father.
(b) He was about the same as his own father had been.
(c) He did not do a very good job.
(d) He was better than most of his friends.

4. From whose point of view is part of Chapter 9?
(a) Yasuko's family.
(b) Cecilia Boone.
(c) Rob's brother.
(d) Beck's son.

5. What did Beck feel that he would some day do?
(a) Kill himself.
(b) Become a senator or congressman.
(c) Become an actor.
(d) Climb Mt. Everest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fell to his death in Beck's party?

2. Who were out in full force in Nepal when news of Beck's rescue was known?

3. What side of Everest was Beck's group planning to climb?

4. Where did Beck's family move in 1954?

5. From where did the call come that told Peach that Beck had been successfully airlifted off the mountain?

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