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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dan say about Beck as far as being competitive?
(a) He hated competition but excelled at it.
(b) He hated doing things that were competitive.
(c) He never did anything that competed against someone else.
(d) He was highly competitive.

2. What did Beck say he blamed for his unhappiness?
(a) His children.
(b) Peach.
(c) His inability to relax.
(d) His job.

3. With whom did Beck feel competitive when he started dating Peach?
(a) No one.
(b) Peach's mother and grandmother.
(c) Dan.
(d) Howard.

4. What did Peach major in during college?
(a) Political science.
(b) English.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Physical education.

5. What did Beck have a tendency to do when he was pursuing a hobby?
(a) Forget it after a short time.
(b) Get carried away.
(c) Get Peach to join him.
(d) Hire someone to show him shortcuts.

6. Who is Howard?
(a) Peach's cousin.
(b) Beck's cousin.
(c) Peach's older brother.
(d) Beck's brother.

7. Why did Beck have trouble seeing as he descended the mountain on his second climb?
(a) His glasses kept fogging up.
(b) Ice kept forming on his goggles.
(c) His eyes were too dry.
(d) His goggles were cracked.

8. What did Beck decide to do instead of suicide?
(a) Bike across the United States.
(b) Divorce his wife.
(c) Climb.
(d) Quit his job.

9. Where did Beck's family move in 1954?
(a) San Bernadino.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Tampa.
(d) Washington, D. C.

10. Where did Beck go after graduating with a B.S.?
(a) To live in Eurpoe for a while.
(b) Temple University School of Dentistry.
(c) To teach in his hometown.
(d) University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

11. Why did the second in command take over on the Aconcagua climb?
(a) The second in command knew the mountain better.
(b) The first in command demonstrated incompetence.
(c) The first in command died.
(d) The first in command got ill.

12. When did Beck propose to Peach?
(a) The night of his graduation.
(b) When Peach told him she was dating another man.
(c) When Peach told him she was accepting a job in New Mexico.
(d) He never officially proposed.

13. Where did Beck find a pipe wrench?
(a) Sitting on top of a flat boulder at the summit of Mount Fuji.
(b) On the pedestal that was supposed to hold Lenin's bust.
(c) In his garage.
(d) Hanging from a tree on Mount Fuji.

14. What did Beck's father do?
(a) A writer.
(b) An aviator.
(c) A physician.
(d) An architect.

15. What was Beck proud to overcome?
(a) Fear of climbing.
(b) Fear of defeat.
(c) Fear of making a bad decision.
(d) Fear of being alone in the wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Beck's father get transferred to in 1958?

2. What is one thing Beck liked about Peach?

3. What did Peach feel about her nickname later in her marriage?

4. How did Beck choose the mountains he climbed?

5. Where did Beck spend his early years?

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