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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After sitting for fifteen minutes, what begins to happen to Ralston's legs?
(a) Ralston hurts his right ankle as he swings it.
(b) His legs begin to form clots.
(c) His legs get cramped with restricted blood flow.
(d) His legs get tender from the material cutting into his legs.

2. What is the name of the place in which Ralston is trapped?
(a) Boulder Canyon.
(b) Blue John Gap.
(c) Red Canyon.
(d) Blue John Canyon.

3. Mark teaches Aron what skills for future climbing adventures?
(a) Rock climbing, wilderness first aid, and rope work.
(b) Orienteering, rock climbing, wilderness first aid.
(c) Rock climbing, avalanche awareness, and rope work.
(d) Avalanche awareness, orienteering, and what to do during predator encounters.

4. By the second day, how does Ralston feel the ordeal ends?
(a) Ute Mountaineering start the missing persons report and begin a search and rescue.
(b) Hikers find and rescue him.
(c) With an amputated limb and rescue.
(d) In death.

5. What causes Ralston's left hand to swell?
(a) The pressure of the knife trying to chip away the chockstone.
(b) The chockstone hit his hand before pinning him.
(c) Hitting his hand with a rock when trying to hammer the knife.
(d) The heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ralston's first backpacking trip?

2. What does Ralston realize about his pinned limb?

3. How many fourteeners does Ralston climb in Colorado?

4. In 1989, Ralston participates in an outdoor adventure camp that includes what activities?

5. Why does Ralston acknowledge Warren MacDonald in his time of entrapment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ralston's first taping on his video recorder in the canyon.

2. How do you describe the feeling Ralston has at the peak of the Maroon Bells in wintertime?

3. What are some signs that indicate Ralston is losing some of his rationale and cool?

4. Why is it be natural for Betty Darr to come up in Ralston's mind during his entrapment?

5. Describe John Griffith's skills that help him survive the wild west.

6. What is Ralston's educational and professional route after high school?

7. Describe the possible consequences Ralston faces if he decides to amputate his arm.

8. What "clothing" does Ralston makeshift for himself to keep warm at night? What else does he do to stay warm from the chill?

9. What does the sheriff's posse think of the outlaws?

10. Ralston responds to his near-drowning in a couple different ways. How does his discussion with his sister differ from the way he reacts in front of his friends.

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