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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 is one thing Beck liked about Peach?
(a) Her adventurous nature.
(b) Her need to have him around.
(c) Her determination to suceed even though she did not excel academically.
(d) How sensitive she was to others.

2. What did Beck's climbing companion want Beck to decide on their way down the mountain?
(a) If Beck was divorcing Peach.
(b) If they were going to keep climbing.
(c) If Beck could handle the Alps.
(d) If Beck could handle the Himalayas.

3. What did Beck learn on Longs Peak?
(a) The meaning of perseverance.
(b) How to quit gracefully.
(c) How to conserve one's energy.
(d) How to climb rocks.

4. In what year did Beck and Peach meet?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1979.

5. What did Beck have a tendency to do when he was pursuing a hobby?
(a) Forget it after a short time.
(b) Get carried away.
(c) Hire someone to show him shortcuts.
(d) Get Peach to join him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck find on his second major climb?

2. Where did Beck start school for the first grade?

3. Why did Beck have trouble seeing as he descended the mountain on his second climb?

4. Where did Beck find a pipe wrench?

5. What did Beck say he enjoyed about climbing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peach say about Beck's "obsessions"?

2. What made Beck decide to climb Everest? How does he start getting ready for the climb?

3. What did Dan relate about his and his father's coping methods for their negative emotions?

4. What did Kit relate about the Weathers' family life?

5. What does Ken want Beck to decide while descending Mount McKinley? What is Beck's response?

6. How did Beck choose the mountains to climb?

7. Why does Beck blame Peace for his unhappiness and what is her response?

8. What does Beck write about his experience climbing Mount McKinley?

9. What did Beck and Peach say attracted each of them to the other?

10. Who served as a surrogate father to Peach, and what was Beck's relationship with the man?

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