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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who came by and offered Beck assistance?
(a) Two Sherpas.
(b) Jon Krakauer.
(c) Steve Mills.
(d) No one.
2. What did Peach not realize when someone called her and said Beck was alive?
(a) Beck was being bombarded by the press.
(b) Beck was still up on the mountain.
(c) Beck was considered a hero for saving another climber.
(d) The caller was implying that Beck would probably die.
3. What does Peach say Beck's obsession with climbing was doing?
(a) Giving him a way to get out of his depression.
(b) Breaking up their family.
(c) Making them poor.
(d) Making him unhappy.
4. Why was Beck almost suffocated in his tent?
(a) He vomited and almost suffocated in it.
(b) The storm set up a wind vacuum.
(c) The storm blew the walls over his face.
(d) He does not almost suffocate.
5. Who helped Beck fight sleep?
(a) Yasuko.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Jon.
6. What did people at base camp tell Peach?
(a) Beck was in a Hyperthermic coma but was airlifted to the hospital.
(b) Beck was dead.
(c) Beck was fine but still on his way down to base camp.
(d) Beck was fine and on his way to Katmandu.
7. In what condition is Yasuko?
(a) Hyperthermic coma.
(b) She is well but has some frostbite on her feet.
(c) She can't be found.
(d) She is dead.
8. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?
(a) He gets out in order to get more food.
(b) He is unable to get out of his sleeping bag.
(c) The winds from the storm.
(d) Two medical doctors arrive and take him out.
9. Who fell 150 feet into a crevasse that Beck heard about?
(a) A British climber.
(b) A Sherpa.
(c) A Russian climber.
(d) A Swiss climber.
10. What was Beck descending?
(a) The Square above Camp Five.
(b) The Circle above Camp Two.
(c) The Rectangle below Camp Three.
(d) The Triangle above Camp Four.
11. Where did Beck stay for a couple days before heading to Lukla?
(a) In Tibet meditating.
(b) At a hotel in Katmandu.
(c) In India.
(d) In Pokhra.
12. Where is Beck Weathers trapped?
(a) Death Zone, Mount Everest.
(b) No Man's Land, Mount Everest.
(c) Life Zone, Mount Everest.
(d) Climber's Hollow, Mount Everest.
13. Who came down the mountain after the man who offered Beck assistance?
(a) Mike Groom and Yasuko.
(b) Rob.
(c) Yasuko.
(d) No one.
14. About what did Beck write while in base camp?
(a) His goals and aspirations for his life.
(b) The history of the climbing of Mount Everest.
(c) His family.
(d) A novel he was writing about climbers.
15. How many feet above sea level was the base camp?
(a) 17,600.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 3200.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was unusual about the conversation with Beck on Monday from Peach's point of view?
2. What does the caller tell Peach about Beck?
3. From whose point of view is part of Chapter 9?
4. With whom do the climbers meet up when climbing down the mountain?
5. How many in Beck's group made it to the summit?
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