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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 was Beck descending?
(a) The Circle above Camp Two.
(b) The Rectangle below Camp Three.
(c) The Square above Camp Five.
(d) The Triangle above Camp Four.

2. Whom did Peach contact that was able to help them?
(a) A Senator from Louisiana who a friend knew.
(b) Tom Daschle.
(c) The American Embassy in Tibet.
(d) The American Embassy in India.

3. What was the weather like eighteen hours earlier than when the book opens?
(a) Foggy.
(b) Sleeting.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Excellent.

4. How did Beck feel about his role as a father?
(a) He had been a very good father.
(b) He did not do a very good job.
(c) He was about the same as his own father had been.
(d) He was better than most of his friends.

5. Why did Beck feel guilty?
(a) He was crippled and would not be able to support his family anymore.
(b) His brother lost his job when he came to help Beck in Nepal.
(c) He put his wife through such emotional anguish.
(d) He survived when others did not.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Beck Weathers trapped?

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

3. How many in Beck's group made it to the summit?

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

5. Who is Madan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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