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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whose death has become a national story in his country?
(a) Doug Hansen
(b) Namba
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) Rob Hall
2. Who was supposed to have set up lines along the pathway up to the summit?
(a) Anatoli Bourkeev
(b) Mike Groom
(c) Hall and Fischer
(d) Sherpas from each team
3. What expedition also has just reached the top at about 4:00 P.M.?
(a) American
(b) South African
(c) Indian
(d) Chinese
4. Who evacuated with Fox via helicopter from Mount Everest?
(a) Gau
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Mike Groom
(d) Beck Weathers
5. Who assembles Fischer's team in order to continue their descent?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) Neil Beidleman
(c) John Krakauer
(d) John Taske
6. Who was told via a phone at Base Camp and Hutchison's message that Harris had made it down safely into Camp?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Helen Wilton
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) Harris' wife
7. Who is thought to be dead at this point of the story, although it is revealed later to not be the case?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) Rob Hall
(c) David Brashears
(d) Beck Weathers
8. Who discovers the bodies of the team mentioned in #151 the next day?
(a) Fischer
(b) Hall
(c) Japanese team
(d) Krakauer
9. Who blames himself for bringing bad luck to Fischer?
(a) Ang Dorje
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Lopsang
(d) Mike Groom
10. Whose flag had Krakauer brought with him to pose with at the summit, although he leaves it in his bag?
(a) Outside magazine
(b) United States
(c) No one's
(d) Washington State
11. Who nearly collapses at the top of the Hillary Step when climbing on Mount Everest?
(a) Doug Hansen
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) No one
12. Who is concerned that neither Fischer nor any of his other clients have reached the top at this point?
(a) Mike Groom
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Neil Beidleman
13. Who was killed in an avalanche on Everest the next year?
(a) Lopsang
(b) Mike Groom
(c) Anatoli Bourkeev
(d) Ang Dorje
14. Who wakes Krakauer and tells him that Harris is not in his tent, shocking Krakauer?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Doug Hansen
(c) Stuart Hutchison
(d) Scott Fischer
15. Who is assisting Pittman, causing him to fall behind and not be the leader as he was meant to be?
(a) Lopsang
(b) Scott Fischer
(c) Rob Hall
(d) Mike Groom
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the one person Krakauer is not able to interview for the article he wrote for the magazine?
2. Krakauer makes his way to the top of __________ where he must wait for descending climbers to pass.
3. Who asks Krakauer to clear the ice from his oxygen equipment in order to make sure it's functioning?
4. Which climber is found alive as well, although he is missing one of his gloves?
5. Who tells one of Fischer's Sherpas to stay behind?
This section contains 446 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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