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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 did people at base camp tell Peach?
(a) Beck was fine but still on his way down to base camp.
(b) Beck was fine and on his way to Katmandu.
(c) Beck was in a Hyperthermic coma but was airlifted to the hospital.
(d) Beck was dead.

2. Who is Anatoli Boukreev?
(a) A Russian guide.
(b) A Russian first-time climber.
(c) The man who rescued Rob.
(d) A Sherpa.

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

4. What happened as the sun began to set?
(a) His best friend fell to his death.
(b) The wind picked up, and Beck's vision blurred again.
(c) His guide returned.
(d) Another group came down off the summit past Beck.

5. Who went to find Beck and Yasuko after the storm abated?
(a) No one as the two were reported as dead.
(b) Rob Hall.
(c) Three Sherpas and Stuart Hutchinson.
(d) Jon Krakauer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initiates a helicopter rescue at Base Camp Two for Beck?

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

3. What does Peach do to help Beck?

4. How long did Peach give Beck to demonstrate that he had changed?

5. What is the setting at the opening of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

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

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

7. What does Beck learn about his rescue as he reaches Kathmandu?

8. Whom did Peach and her friends contact to get Beck off the mountain?

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

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

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