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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. Who payed for the Sherpas to prepare the routes?
(a) The expeditions at base camp.
(b) The Sherpas do not prepare the routes, the guides do.
(c) The Sherpas volunteer to do it.
(d) The government of Nepal.

2. How old was Pete Schoening?
(a) 46.
(b) 54.
(c) 68.
(d) 72.

3. Over dinner, in Chapter 5, The Trail to Everest, how did the four men plan to obtain their equipment?
(a) The found an alternate supplier.
(b) Fischer decided to rush to New Zealand to procure the equipment.
(c) They divided it up.
(d) They put Boukreev in charge.

4. Where did Boukreev first meet Scott Fischer?
(a) In college.
(b) On a climb.
(c) At a supply store.
(d) At a party.

5. Who was quoted about the ethics of taking a client's money when he has little chance of completing the climb?
(a) Boukreev.
(b) Todd.
(c) Krakauer.
(d) Fischer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fischer say to Boukreev, in Chapter 9, Camp II?

2. What piece of equipment was of concern to Boukreev?

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

4. What was the minimum amount of time required to cross the crevices, in Chapter 8, Khumbu to Camp II?

5. With whom did Henry Todd have an agreement for oxygen?

Short Essay Questions

1. About whom was Boukreev initially concerned?

2. How did Sandy Pittman communicate with NBC?

3. Besides Mountain Madness, who else climbed Everest in the spring of 1996?

4. What was Boukreev's confusion about his role as guide?

5. What was the role of the Sherpas on a climbing expedition?

6. Who did Neal Beidleman recruit?

7. What was Boukreev's initial reaction to meeting his climbers?

8. Whose responsibility was it to get oxygen, and how did Mountain Madness get it?

9. What was the original plan to get to base camp, and how was it changed?

10. Who was Hunt?

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