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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beck learn on Longs Peak?
(a) How to conserve one's energy.
(b) The meaning of perseverance.
(c) How to climb rocks.
(d) How to quit gracefully.

2. What does the caller tell Peach about Beck?
(a) He was off the mountain but under arrest for not getting the proper permits.
(b) He died on Everest.
(c) He was in the hospital at Katmandu.
(d) He would be delayed getting off the mountain for a few days.

3. 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) They had to go to counseling.
(d) The marriage was over.

4. What happened to Beck at about 14,000 feet on Cartenza Pyramid?
(a) His vision shifted.
(b) He fell ill with altitude sickness.
(c) He fell unconscious from oxygen deprivation.
(d) He broke his foot.

5. What did Beck look forward to seeing on his climb of Mount Elbrus?
(a) The bust of Lenin.
(b) The American flag planted thirty years earlier.
(c) A plant that only grew on this mountain.
(d) The view where he could see eight different countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Meg ask her father never to do?

2. Who are the Sherpas?

3. How much was Beck's cost for the Kilimanjaro climb?

4. What did Peach think was killing their marriage?

5. Of what did Beck become President in 1982?

(see the answer key)

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