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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. With whose family did Beck meet?
(a) Yasuko.
(b) Doug.
(c) Andy.
(d) Rob.

2. What had Peach planned to tell Beck after his climbing Mount Everest before Beck was injured?
(a) The marriage was over.
(b) She was seeing another man.
(c) She was moving to California to accept a job.
(d) They had to go to counseling.

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

4. Where did Dan meet Beck?
(a) At a hotel where Beck is recovering.
(b) In Texas.
(c) In New York City.
(d) In Ramstein, Germany.

5. From where did the call come that told Peach that Beck had been successfully airlifted off the mountain?
(a) Nepal.
(b) India.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Australia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Peach not realize when someone called her and said Beck was alive?

4. Who is Rob?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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