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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 does Linda Gravelle do for Peach?
(a) Takes the children to her home to stay.
(b) Calls her brother who is an Air Force General in Ramstein.
(c) Calls the governor for help.
(d) Volunteers to go care for Beck since she was a doctor.

2. Why did the second in command take over on the Aconcagua climb?
(a) The first in command demonstrated incompetence.
(b) The first in command got ill.
(c) The first in command died.
(d) The second in command knew the mountain better.

3. Who went to find Beck and Yasuko after the storm abated?
(a) Rob Hall.
(b) Jon Krakauer.
(c) No one as the two were reported as dead.
(d) Three Sherpas and Stuart Hutchinson.

4. Where did Beck go after graduating with a B.S.?
(a) Temple University School of Dentistry.
(b) To teach in his hometown.
(c) To live in Eurpoe for a while.
(d) University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

5. What is the date when the book opens?
(a) May, 1996.
(b) May, 1999.
(c) June, 1995.
(d) August, 1994.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck's father do?

2. What does Peach do to help Beck?

3. What did Beck nickname his depression?

4. What advice did the group at base camp receive?

5. How did Beck's brother Dan energize himself?

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