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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 did Beck forget to do for their wedding night?
(a) Reserve a room.
(b) Bring the airline tickets.
(c) Bring the ring.
(d) Reserve a taxi.

2. What did Beck ask one man who was on the Aconcagua climb with Beck?
(a) If the man had ever climbed.
(b) Why Mount Everest is so difficult.
(c) If the man ever felt depressed while climbing.
(d) What it was like to climb Everest.

3. Where did Beck spend his early years?
(a) Korea.
(b) Germany.
(c) Japan.
(d) Philippines.

4. Who attended the meal with Beck and other climbers on the summit of Mount Elbrus?
(a) Some Russian soldiers.
(b) Some Polish factory workers.
(c) No one.
(d) Prostitutes.

5. With whom did Beck learn about mountaineering?
(a) Ken.
(b) Bud.
(c) Harold.
(d) Dan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Peach's father die?

2. What did Meg ask her father never to do?

3. What did Peach feel about her nickname later in her marriage?

4. What did Beck's father do?

5. What did Beck's climbing companion want Beck to decide on their way down the mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Beck relate about his time when his father was stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1958?

2. What did Meg ask of her father? How did she feel about him?

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

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

5. What did Beck begin to do after his term as president of Medical City ended? How did he cope with the problem?

6. How did Beck choose the mountains to climb?

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

8. What did Beck write about his life in Japan?

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

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

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