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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beck's climbing companion want Beck to decide on their way down the mountain?
(a) If Beck could handle the Himalayas.
(b) If Beck could handle the Alps.
(c) If they were going to keep climbing.
(d) If Beck was divorcing Peach.

2. What did Beck look forward to seeing on his climb of Mount Elbrus?
(a) The bust of Lenin.
(b) The view where he could see eight different countries.
(c) The American flag planted thirty years earlier.
(d) A plant that only grew on this mountain.

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

4. What did Meg ask her father never to do?
(a) Leave Peach.
(b) Climb in South America.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Climb Mt. Everest.

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

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

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

8. How did Beck think of himself in high school?
(a) As someone motivated more by people than achievements.
(b) As the smartest student in the school.
(c) As a smart wimp.
(d) As a slow learner.

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

10. What did Beck learn on Longs Peak?
(a) The meaning of perseverance.
(b) How to conserve one's energy.
(c) How to quit gracefully.
(d) How to climb rocks.

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

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

13. Why did Beck avoid sports in high school?
(a) He was not very coordinated.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His size.
(d) He had to work after school.

14. What did Beck enjoy doing after they moved to Dallas when he was not working?
(a) Meeting his buddies at the bars.
(b) Building model planes.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Running.

15. With whom did Beck learn about mountaineering?
(a) Bud.
(b) Harold.
(c) Ken.
(d) Dan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Beck choose the mountains he climbed?

2. Where did Beck learn survival skills?

3. What was Peace thinking about while Beck was out climbing?

4. What did Beck find on his second major climb?

5. What is Peach's real name?

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