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

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

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

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

5. Why is Peach frustrated?
(a) She is receiving conflicting news.
(b) No one is there to help her dying husband.
(c) She cannot get a flight to Nepal.
(d) She cannot talk to Beck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Peach planned to tell Beck after his climbing Mount Everest before Beck was injured?

2. What does Linda Gravelle do for Peach?

3. Who are the Sherpas?

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

5. What was Beck descending?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

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

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

5. What did Beck do while waiting to travel to base camp on Everest?

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

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

8. What happened after Mike Groom arrived?

9. What does Beck say about hiking the Khumbu trail on his way to base camp?

10. What is the purpose of the climbers' stay at Base Camp?

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