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

2. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?
(a) He is unable to get out of his sleeping bag.
(b) Two medical doctors arrive and take him out.
(c) He gets out in order to get more food.
(d) The winds from the storm.

3. What did Peach not realize when someone called her and said Beck was alive?
(a) Beck was still up on the mountain.
(b) Beck was being bombarded by the press.
(c) Beck was considered a hero for saving another climber.
(d) The caller was implying that Beck would probably die.

4. From whose point of view is part of Chapter 9?
(a) Cecilia Boone.
(b) Rob's brother.
(c) Yasuko's family.
(d) Beck's son.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who fell 150 feet into a crevasse that Beck heard about?

3. Who is with Beck Weathers?

4. What was unusual about the conversation with Beck on Monday from Peach's point of view?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Peach told about Beck in a phone call, and what happened just as she was relaying the news to the children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

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