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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dan learn about as much as possible?
(a) Beck's medical condition.
(b) The other climbers' fates.
(c) The situation that led to Beck's almost dying.
(d) How Beck and Peach felt towards each other.

2. What was the weather like eighteen hours earlier than when the book opens?
(a) Excellent.
(b) Sleeting.
(c) Foggy.
(d) Rainy.

3. About what did Beck write while in base camp?
(a) His family.
(b) The history of the climbing of Mount Everest.
(c) His goals and aspirations for his life.
(d) A novel he was writing about climbers.

4. How did Beck get to Lukla once he was in Nepal?
(a) Yaks.
(b) Hiking.
(c) Train.
(d) Helicopter.

5. Who came down the mountain after the man who offered Beck assistance?
(a) Rob.
(b) Yasuko.
(c) No one.
(d) Mike Groom and Yasuko.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Peach give Beck to demonstrate that he had changed?

2. With whose family did Beck meet?

3. Who fell 150 feet into a crevasse that Beck heard about?

4. What bothered many people about Beck?

5. In what condition was Beck?

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