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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 gave Beck motivation?
(a) He saw a bright light that went ahead of him.
(b) Thinking about his family.
(c) Thinking about getting Yasuko to safety.
(d) He heard God's voice in his head.

2. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?
(a) He gets out in order to get more food.
(b) The winds from the storm.
(c) Two medical doctors arrive and take him out.
(d) He is unable to get out of his sleeping bag.

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

4. Between what two points of view does Chapter 13 switch?
(a) Peach and Beck.
(b) Beck and Rob Hall.
(c) Beck and his son.
(d) Beck and his daughter.

5. What time does the narration flash back to in Chapter 11?
(a) When Beck is climbing Mount Fuji.
(b) Beck's childhood.
(c) When Beck is climbing in Iceland.
(d) Beck talking to his wife before leaving for Nepal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people at base camp tell Peach?

2. What advice did the group at base camp receive?

3. When did Beck propose to Peach?

4. What did Peach realize after meeting with the second marriage counselor?

5. How soon did Beck's group leave base camp after descending from the summit of Vinson Massif?

(see the answer key)

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