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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How low did the temperature go where Beck trapped?
(a) Twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) Two degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) Minus five degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) Minus sixty degrees Fahrenheit.

2. What did Peach think was killing their marriage?
(a) Beck's refusal to negotiate how often he went climbing.
(b) Incompetent counselors.
(c) Beck's obsession with mountain climbing.
(d) An inability to communicate.

3. Why did Beck have a difficult time reading?
(a) He was dyslexic.
(b) His first language was Japanese.
(c) His weak eyes.
(d) One of his eyes was blind.

4. Who is Madan?
(a) A medical doctor.
(b) Beck's brother.
(c) Beck's best friend.
(d) The helicopter pilot.

5. What does Linda Gravelle do for Peach?
(a) Calls the governor for help.
(b) Calls her brother who is an Air Force General in Ramstein.
(c) Takes the children to her home to stay.
(d) Volunteers to go care for Beck since she was a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Beck choose the mountains he climbed?

3. Who came by and offered Beck assistance?

4. Where is the Vinson Massif?

5. For what did Beck engage Rob Hall?

(see the answer key)

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