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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. What is different on Thursday morning than from all of Ralston's other mornings in the canyon?
(a) No ravens fly by.
(b) No mosquitos today.
(c) No "sun salute".
(d) No music in his head.

2. What causes Ralston to have an erratic heartbeat and sunken eyes?
(a) Infection from an open wound.
(b) Lack of sleep.
(c) Dehydration.
(d) Old burritos.

3. When getting too confident at Slick Rock Trail, what happens to Ralston?
(a) He falls head first into a snow pile when trying to show off on his skis.
(b) He gets stuck on a climb and has to retreat and reroute himself.
(c) He slams into a sand trap face forward.
(d) In the middle of hopping between boulders, he slips into a crack and rolls his ankle.

4. During Ralston's predicament when surveying a ski race route, what does he have to do?
(a) Drag an ice axe onto bare rock during a fall.
(b) Make a snow cave and wait for five hours until safe.
(c) Click out and carry his skis.
(d) Climb a tree and wait for three hours until safe.

5. What is different about his last trance compared to all the other previous trances?
(a) Ralston is able to control the direction on his own without a guide.
(b) Ralston feels he is present in both planes, the imaginary and the reality.
(c) Ralston is able to speak with the people he sees.
(d) Ralston is an active participant in the last trance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brian decide to do when Ralston does not show up?

2. What promising information does Jason Halladay provide?

3. What do the mosquitoes indicate to Ralston?

4. Ralston reminisces about past thirst-quenchers. Which type does he most often think about?

5. What important role does Ranger Sherrill play in Ralston's search?

Short Essay Questions

1. If Ralston knows how to successfully amputate his arm days earlier, does the outcome be the same or different? How come?

2. From Ralston's perspective, what significance is there in knowing what his friends are doing during his entrapment?

3. How does Steve Patchett help with the search from New Mexico?

4. How does Ralston's trances help him?

5. Describe the sequence of events the leads to locating Ralston's truck.

6. What training does Ralston do within a 60 hour period that tells him he is ready for his Denali trip?

7. What happens after the amputation that eventually leads Ralston to the helicopter?

8. Other than taste, what other factors does Ralston have to consider when deciding on whether to drink his urine?

9. As time continues in the canyon, what does Ralston's water supply mean to him?

10. What is Ralston's agenda between leaving his house on Spruce Street on Thursday and the Saturday he becomes trapped in the canyon?

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