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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose point of view is part of Chapter 9?
(a) Yasuko's family.
(b) Rob's brother.
(c) Beck's son.
(d) Cecilia Boone.

2. How did Beck contact his family while at base camp?
(a) He never contacted his family.
(b) Letters that a messenger took to Katmandu.
(c) Cell phone.
(d) Fax.

3. What surprised Peach while Beck was in base camp before he even started the climb?
(a) He wrote and said it would be his last climb.
(b) He sent her faxes.
(c) He called her.
(d) He wrote her two letters.

4. Who came down the mountain after the man who offered Beck assistance?
(a) Rob.
(b) Mike Groom and Yasuko.
(c) Yasuko.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Anatoli Boukreev?

2. What does Dan learn about as much as possible?

3. When did Beck's team make High Camp on the South Col?

4. Who is Meg?

5. Who is Rob?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peach say about Beck's and her relationship in Chapter 8?

2. Why did the search party leave Beck and Yasuko where they found them?

3. How did Beck end up making it back to Camp IV?

4. What is the purpose of the climbers' stay at Base Camp?

5. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

6. What did Beck say was the reason he climbed, and what was the impact of his climbing on his family?

7. What astonishes the climbers at Camp IV as they prepared to descend to Camp II, and what did the climbers do?

8. Describe the storm that pummels Beck's tent as he lay helpless inside.

9. Why did Dan fly to be with Beck while Beck was in a hotel recovering?

10. What does Beck say about hiking the Khumbu trail on his way to base camp?

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