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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Peach and the family think of Beck when he came home from a climb?
(a) He did not know them.
(b) He wasn't really part of the family.
(c) He was being overly enthusiastic about the family.
(d) He missed the main reasons to climb.

2. What did Beck say he blamed for his unhappiness?
(a) His job.
(b) His children.
(c) His inability to relax.
(d) Peach.

3. Why is Peach frustrated?
(a) No one is there to help her dying husband.
(b) She cannot talk to Beck.
(c) She is receiving conflicting news.
(d) She cannot get a flight to Nepal.

4. How did Peach's father die?
(a) His plane was shot down over Germany.
(b) Radiation poisoning.
(c) He died of old age.
(d) He was lost on an expedition to the Arctic Circle.

5. What did Peach not realize when someone called her and said Beck was alive?
(a) Beck was being bombarded by the press.
(b) The caller was implying that Beck would probably die.
(c) Beck was still up on the mountain.
(d) Beck was considered a hero for saving another climber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck's father use to combat negative feelings?

2. With what was Aconcagua rife?

3. What subject did Beck's mother teach?

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

5. What did Beck forget to do for their wedding night?

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