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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 11, Toward the Push?
(a) April 27.
(b) April 23.
(c) April 25.
(d) April 21.

2. What piece of equipment was of concern to Boukreev?
(a) Radios.
(b) Compasses.
(c) Ropes.
(d) Altimeters.

3. What did the climbers lack to be able to ascend the fixed ropes of the Lhotse Face?
(a) Headgear.
(b) Flashlights.
(c) Crampons.
(d) Radios.

4. What year does the book open?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1996.

5. Where did the clients from the United States fly out of?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Houston.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was one bottle of oxygen?

2. How did Beidleman describe the group of people in trouble in Chapter 18, Walk or Crawl?

3. What dangerous mountain is the book about?

4. What was one barrier between Boukreev and his clients?

5. How did Ngawang Topche Sherpa get to base camp?

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