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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Dan meet Beck?
(a) In New York City.
(b) At a hotel where Beck is recovering.
(c) In Texas.
(d) In Ramstein, Germany.

2. Who is with Beck Weathers?
(a) His wife and a Sherpa guide.
(b) Dozens of climbers.
(c) His best friend.
(d) No one.

3. What face did the climbers ascend over?
(a) Nuptse Face.
(b) Khumbu Face.
(c) Yakita Face.
(d) Lhotse Face.

4. What did Beck feel at base camp?
(a) Aprehensive.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Exhileration.
(d) Tired.

5. After how long was Beck not to try to rejoin the group when he stopped?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 1 hour.

6. Who is Anatoli Boukreev?
(a) A Russian guide.
(b) The man who rescued Rob.
(c) A Sherpa.
(d) A Russian first-time climber.

7. From where did the call come that told Peach that Beck had been successfully airlifted off the mountain?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Australia.
(c) Nepal.
(d) India.

8. How low did the temperature go where Beck trapped?
(a) Two degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) Minus sixty degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) Twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) Minus five degrees Fahrenheit.

9. What did people at base camp tell Peach?
(a) Beck was fine but still on his way down to base camp.
(b) Beck was in a Hyperthermic coma but was airlifted to the hospital.
(c) Beck was fine and on his way to Katmandu.
(d) Beck was dead.

10. Where is Beck Weathers trapped?
(a) No Man's Land, Mount Everest.
(b) Life Zone, Mount Everest.
(c) Climber's Hollow, Mount Everest.
(d) Death Zone, Mount Everest.

11. Whom did Rob get to talk with before he died?
(a) His pregnant wife.
(b) His fiance.
(c) His three daughters.
(d) His parents.

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

13. What surprised Peach while Beck was in base camp before he even started the climb?
(a) He wrote her two letters.
(b) He sent her faxes.
(c) He wrote and said it would be his last climb.
(d) He called her.

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

15. Who is Rob?
(a) Beck's friend from Texas who is also climbing.
(b) Another first-time climber.
(c) Beck's guide.
(d) Beck's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what did Meg reflect when she thought her father was dead?

2. What does Dan learn about as much as possible?

3. Beck lost the use of ____________.

4. With whose family did Beck meet?

5. How does Beck get out of his sleeping bag?

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