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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Beck try different challenges in the early years of his marriage?
(a) He had a lot of vacation.
(b) His brother challeneged him to do so.
(c) Unhappiness in his marriage.
(d) Harold challenged him to do so.

3. On what did Peach count on when she was thinking about divorce?
(a) Beck's generosity.
(b) Her friends' support.
(c) Her parents' support.
(d) Her children's support.

4. What type of climbing was trickier than Beck realized?
(a) Glacier climbing.
(b) Rock climbing.
(c) Repelling.
(d) Crevasse climbing.

5. What did Beck say he enjoyed about climbing?
(a) The terror.
(b) The time away from home.
(c) The sights.
(d) The tranquility.

6. Where is Mount Aconcagua?
(a) In Central America.
(b) In the Argentine Andes.
(c) In Canada.
(d) In Iceland.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Whom did Peach and the children enjoy having on their vacations?
(a) Peach's mother.
(b) Dan.
(c) No one.
(d) Howie.

11. 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 goggles were cracked.
(d) His eyes were too dry.

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

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

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

15. Who attended the meal with Beck and other climbers on the summit of Mount Elbrus?
(a) Some Polish factory workers.
(b) No one.
(c) Some Russian soldiers.
(d) Prostitutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck climb in Mexico in 1990?

2. How did Beck's brother Dan energize himself?

3. Of what did Beck become President in 1982?

4. Where did Beck start school for the first grade?

5. What did Beck nickname his depression?

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