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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. How did Beck get to Lukla once he was in Nepal?
(a) Yaks.
(b) Helicopter.
(c) Hiking.
(d) Train.

2. Who is Rob?
(a) Another first-time climber.
(b) Beck's guide.
(c) Beck's son.
(d) Beck's friend from Texas who is also climbing.

3. Who helped Beck fight sleep?
(a) Yasuko.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Jon.
(d) Sandy.

4. Upon what did Meg reflect when she thought her father was dead?
(a) She was sad but at least the fighting between her parents was over.
(b) What life would be like without her dad.
(c) She did not believe he was dead.
(d) She had told her father not to go.

5. What is the setting at the opening of Chapter 2?
(a) The airport before the expedition.
(b) Back at Beck's home in Canada.
(c) Back at Beck's home in the United States.
(d) Halfway up Mount Everest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck do around 4 p.m.?

2. What did people at base camp tell Peach?

3. About what did Beck write while in base camp?

4. Who is Madan?

5. What was the weather like eighteen hours earlier than when the book opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beck contrast current weather conditions with the conditions when he started up the summit eighteen hours earlier?

2. How did Beck communicate with his family during most climbs, and how did he do so on the Everest expedition?

3. What did three Sherpas and Stuart Hutchinson find after they set out to locate Yasuko and Beck?

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

5. What was Peach told about Beck in a phone call, and what happened just as she was relaying the news to the children?

6. What is the date at the opening chapter and what is Beck doing?

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

8. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

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

10. What does the rest of Chapter 7 describe after Beck arrives at Camp II?

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