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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After how long was Beck not to try to rejoin the group when he stopped?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 1 hour.

2. How many in Beck's group made it to the summit?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

3. What did Beck do around 4 p.m.?
(a) Began to ascend to find Rob Hall.
(b) Called his wife on his cell phone.
(c) Opened his eyes.
(d) Gave Yasuko mouth to mouth resuscitation.

4. Where did Beck stay for a couple days before heading to Lukla?
(a) At a hotel in Katmandu.
(b) In Pokhra.
(c) In India.
(d) In Tibet meditating.

5. Who fell to his death in Beck's party?
(a) A Taiwanese climber.
(b) An English climber.
(c) A Japanese climber.
(d) A Sherpa.

6. What does Dan learn about as much as possible?
(a) The situation that led to Beck's almost dying.
(b) The other climbers' fates.
(c) Beck's medical condition.
(d) How Beck and Peach felt towards each other.

7. What did Peach tell Beck when he talked to her?
(a) Nothing; they were unable to talk.
(b) His father has had a heart attack.
(c) Beck's brother is enroute to meet Beck.
(d) She hoped this cured him of his obsession with climbing.

8. What advice did the group at base camp receive?
(a) To keep Beck from warming up and a doctor would be there soon.
(b) To ask Beck if he wanted to be given a morphine overdose since he would die in agony otherwise.
(c) To leave Beck since he would die anyway.
(d) To ready Beck for a rescue sled team.

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

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

11. In what condition is Yasuko?
(a) Hyperthermic coma.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She is well but has some frostbite on her feet.
(d) She can't be found.

12. How did Beck get to Lukla once he was in Nepal?
(a) Helicopter.
(b) Hiking.
(c) Train.
(d) Yaks.

13. What happened as the sun began to set?
(a) His best friend fell to his death.
(b) Another group came down off the summit past Beck.
(c) His guide returned.
(d) The wind picked up, and Beck's vision blurred again.

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

15. Whom did Peach contact that was able to help them?
(a) The American Embassy in India.
(b) A Senator from Louisiana who a friend knew.
(c) The American Embassy in Tibet.
(d) Tom Daschle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Meg?

2. What face did the climbers ascend over?

3. In what condition was Beck?

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

5. Upon what did Meg reflect when she thought her father was dead?

(see the answer keys)

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