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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. What side of Everest was Beck's group planning to climb?
(a) North Side.
(b) Khumbu Glacier.
(c) West Side.
(d) East Side.

2. Who is Madan?
(a) Beck's brother.
(b) Beck's best friend.
(c) The helicopter pilot.
(d) A medical doctor.

3. Beck lost the use of ____________.
(a) His left eye.
(b) His hands.
(c) His left ear.
(d) His sense of smell.

4. How many feet above sea level was the base camp?
(a) 3200.
(b) 17,600.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 8,000.

5. Who initiates a helicopter rescue at Base Camp Two for Beck?
(a) Beck's brother.
(b) Beck's parents.
(c) Peach.
(d) Yasuko's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Beck compare facing death?

2. From where did the call come that told Peach that Beck had been successfully airlifted off the mountain?

3. How did Beck feel about his role as a father?

4. What did the camp do when Beck arrived?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happened after Mike Groom arrived?

7. What did Beck say about a climber's drive?

8. What happened when the camp radioed down the mountain about Beck's arrival?

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

10. What route did Beck's group take, and what was the first tragedy on the climb?

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