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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beck's climbing companion want Beck to decide on their way down the mountain?
(a) If Beck could handle the Himalayas.
(b) If they were going to keep climbing.
(c) If Beck was divorcing Peach.
(d) If Beck could handle the Alps.

2. What did Beck have a tendency to do when he was pursuing a hobby?
(a) Forget it after a short time.
(b) Get Peach to join him.
(c) Hire someone to show him shortcuts.
(d) Get carried away.

3. What did Beck feel that he would some day do?
(a) Climb Mt. Everest.
(b) Become a senator or congressman.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Become an actor.

4. What did Meg ask her father never to do?
(a) Kill himself.
(b) Leave Peach.
(c) Climb in South America.
(d) Climb Mt. Everest.

5. With whom did Beck feel competitive when he started dating Peach?
(a) Howard.
(b) Peach's mother and grandmother.
(c) Dan.
(d) No one.

6. On what did Peach count on when she was thinking about divorce?
(a) Her friends' support.
(b) Beck's generosity.
(c) Her children's support.
(d) Her parents' support.

7. What did Beck decide to major in at college?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Pre-med.
(c) Biology.
(d) Writing.

8. What seemed to be the only way Beck could be happy?
(a) Feeling needed.
(b) Going from goal to goal.
(c) Being in danger.
(d) Away from work.

9. Why did Beck have trouble seeing as he descended the mountain on his second climb?
(a) His goggles were cracked.
(b) Ice kept forming on his goggles.
(c) His eyes were too dry.
(d) His glasses kept fogging up.

10. Of what did Beck become President in 1982?
(a) The Lions Club.
(b) The National Forensics Association.
(c) The medical staff at Medical City.
(d) The Auxillery Police Association.

11. What did Beck nickname his depression?
(a) The Dark Hound.
(b) The Black Dog.
(c) The Black Miasma.
(d) The Thing.

12. What did Beck climb in Mexico in 1990?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The pyramid of the Sun.
(c) Two volcanos.
(d) A series of crevasses.

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

14. What is one thing Beck liked about Peach?
(a) Her adventurous nature.
(b) Her determination to suceed even though she did not excel academically.
(c) Her need to have him around.
(d) How sensitive she was to others.

15. With whom did Beck learn about mountaineering?
(a) Bud.
(b) Dan.
(c) Harold.
(d) Ken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beck ask one man who was on the Aconcagua climb with Beck?

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

3. Where did Beck find a pipe wrench?

4. What did Beck decide to do instead of suicide?

5. Between what two points of view does Chapter 13 switch?

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