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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Peach planned to tell Beck after his climbing Mount Everest before Beck was injured?
(a) She was seeing another man.
(b) They had to go to counseling.
(c) The marriage was over.
(d) She was moving to California to accept a job.

2. Who helped Beck fight sleep?
(a) Yasuko.
(b) Jon.
(c) Sandy.
(d) Charlotte.

3. What does Peach do to help Beck?
(a) She arranged for him to be rescued and cared for.
(b) Starts a prayer chain.
(c) She sends a frostbite specialist to Nepal from Germany.
(d) She sends a frostbite specialist to Nepal from Russia.

4. Who is with Beck Weathers?
(a) Dozens of climbers.
(b) No one.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His wife and a Sherpa guide.

5. What does Peach say Beck's obsession with climbing was doing?
(a) Giving him a way to get out of his depression.
(b) Making them poor.
(c) Making him unhappy.
(d) Breaking up their family.

6. With whose family did Beck meet?
(a) Yasuko.
(b) Doug.
(c) Rob.
(d) Andy.

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

8. Who went to find Beck and Yasuko after the storm abated?
(a) No one as the two were reported as dead.
(b) Jon Krakauer.
(c) Rob Hall.
(d) Three Sherpas and Stuart Hutchinson.

9. Who are the Sherpas?
(a) Nepali climbing guides.
(b) A family that lived near the border of India and Nepal.
(c) A group of monks from Tibet.
(d) A group of climbers from Russia.

10. Who is Rob?
(a) Beck's son.
(b) Another first-time climber.
(c) Beck's friend from Texas who is also climbing.
(d) Beck's guide.

11. What side of Everest was Beck's group planning to climb?
(a) North Side.
(b) West Side.
(c) East Side.
(d) Khumbu Glacier.

12. Where was Beck taken?
(a) A hospital in Ramstein, Germany.
(b) A hospital in Pokhra.
(c) The American Embassy.
(d) A hospital in New Delhi.

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

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

15. Who were out in full force in Nepal when news of Beck's rescue was known?
(a) Beck's family and friends.
(b) The Napalese people.
(c) The Sherpas.
(d) The paparazzi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?

2. What does Linda Gravelle do for Peach?

3. For what was Beck particularly concerned when they began their assault for the summit?

4. How many in Beck's group made it to the summit?

5. What was the weather like eighteen hours earlier than when the book opens?

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