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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 do Matthiessen and Schaller feel is against them as they journey forward?
(a) Time.
(b) Sherpas.
(c) Government.
(d) The weather.

2. Where does Matthiessen need to be by Thanksgiving?
(a) London.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Jakarta.
(d) New York.

3. What two topics do Matthiessen and Schaller talk about in conflict with each other?
(a) Philosophy and law.
(b) Accounting and physics.
(c) Religion and science.
(d) Poetry and art.

4. Whom does Matthiessen think about the whole time that he is traveling?
(a) Alex.
(b) Deborah.
(c) The blue sheep.
(d) Dawa.

5. When do the men expect to reunite with Tukten and the porter?
(a) November 10.
(b) February 12.
(c) December 20.
(d) October 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Matthiessen and Schaller discard before starting their climbing journey?

2. When is the perfect time to travel and for harvesting potatoes, according to Matthiessen?

3. With whom did Matthiessen have a relationship that was falling apart five months prior to death?

4. Whom does Matthiessen think might drink or swear too much?

5. Whom does Matthiessen's group see along their journey that reminds the group of mortality?

Short Essay Questions

1. When they are hiking, what disgusts Schaller but he is powerless to prevent from happening?

2. In Part 2, how does Matthiessen describe his relationship with Deborah before she died?

3. What makes Schaller furious because he is afraid of being stranded?

4. What is a Vedic belief that Matthiessen has great respect for and shares on his initial ascent up the mountain in Part 1?

5. Whom does Matthiessen think about when the sherpa fetches him and Schaller wine to drink in the old cow shed?

6. How does Matthiessen adjust to the higher elevations once they pass 12,000 feet?

7. When Matthiessen and Schaller arrive in Pokhara, whom do they meet?

8. When did Matthiessen meet his wife and how does he feel about that experience while writing the novel?

9. What are the two conditions that affect the group because of the heavy weather as they hike up the canyon?

10. What happens to Matthiessen after he walks for 10 hours on the first day of their trek?

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