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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the narration flash back to in Chapter 11?
(a) Beck's childhood.
(b) When Beck is climbing in Iceland.
(c) When Beck is climbing Mount Fuji.
(d) Beck talking to his wife before leaving for Nepal.

2. What subject did Beck's mother teach?
(a) Art.
(b) Science.
(c) Physical education.
(d) English.

3. How did Beck's brother Dan energize himself?
(a) Activity.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Acting.
(d) Fanatasy.

4. Where did Beck go hunting on a family vacation?
(a) India.
(b) Russia.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Australia.

5. Where did Beck decide to climb after his climb in Colorado?
(a) Mount McKinley.
(b) Mount Olympus.
(c) Mount Fuji.
(d) Mount Shasta.

6. What did Beck ask one man who was on the Aconcagua climb with Beck?
(a) What it was like to climb Everest.
(b) If the man had ever climbed.
(c) Why Mount Everest is so difficult.
(d) If the man ever felt depressed while climbing.

7. In what year did Beck and Peach meet?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1981.

8. Where did Beck start school for the first grade?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Charleston.

9. What did Beck feel that he would some day do?
(a) Become an actor.
(b) Climb Mt. Everest.
(c) Become a senator or congressman.
(d) Kill himself.

10. Where did Beck decide to attend college?
(a) Purdue.
(b) Yale.
(c) Midwestern State.
(d) Mississippi State.

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

12. What did some of Beck's friends realize about Beck's climbing hobby?
(a) It might be getting dangerous.
(b) It was a substitute for an interesting job.
(c) It was a subsitute for living with his family.
(d) Nothing.

13. What did Beck climb in Mexico in 1990?
(a) The pyramid of the Sun.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Two volcanos.
(d) A series of crevasses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two points of view does Chapter 13 switch?

2. Where is Mount Aconcagua?

3. Why did Beck try different challenges in the early years of his marriage?

4. What did Beck forget to do for their wedding night?

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

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