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

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

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

4. What does Peach do to help Beck?
(a) She sends a frostbite specialist to Nepal from Russia.
(b) Starts a prayer chain.
(c) She sends a frostbite specialist to Nepal from Germany.
(d) She arranged for him to be rescued and cared for.

5. How low did the temperature go where Beck trapped?
(a) Two degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) Twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) Minus sixty degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) Minus five degrees Fahrenheit.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Beck particularly concerned when they began their assault for the summit?

2. From whose point of view is part of Chapter 9?

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

4. Who were out in full force in Nepal when news of Beck's rescue was known?

5. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Beck's longtime recovery proceed?

6. What happened after Mike Groom arrived?

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

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

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

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

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