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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 was the weather like eighteen hours earlier than when the book opens?
(a) Sleeting.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Foggy.

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

3. How did Beck contact his family while at base camp?
(a) Cell phone.
(b) He never contacted his family.
(c) Letters that a messenger took to Katmandu.
(d) Fax.

4. Why did Beck have trouble seeing as he descended the mountain on his second climb?
(a) His eyes were too dry.
(b) His goggles were cracked.
(c) His glasses kept fogging up.
(d) Ice kept forming on his goggles.

5. Why did the second in command take over on the Aconcagua climb?
(a) The first in command demonstrated incompetence.
(b) The second in command knew the mountain better.
(c) The first in command got ill.
(d) The first in command died.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Beck and Peach meet?

3. With what does Beck compare facing death?

4. Whom did Peach and the children enjoy having on their vacations?

5. What did people at base camp tell Peach?

(see the answer key)

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