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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Land Without Pity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is verglas?
(a) A type of eye lens used to help climbers with vertigo.
(b) Vertical ice.
(c) A thin glaze of glass-like ice covering the rock.
(d) Vertical scree.

2. What does Joe do to find out if Simon has fallen to his death?
(a) He calls him on the radio.
(b) He taps their secret code on the ice wall.
(c) He asks Richard.
(d) He pulls the rope.

3. Which practice route does Al Rouse understate as 'a ridge of some difficulty'?
(a) The South Ridge of Seria Norte.
(b) Rosario Norte.
(c) Cerro Serapo.
(d) The South Ridge of Cerro Yantauri.

4. What is a pitch?
(a) A section of a climb equal to one length of rope.
(b) A slide down the mountain on one's back.
(c) The echo of the ax cracking the ice.
(d) A toss of the rope.

5. What is a sticht plate?
(a) A high-altitude breathing apparatus.
(b) A belay device.
(c) A camming device.
(d) A cooking utensil.

Short Answer Questions

1. After close inspection, what does Joe determine the "floor" of the crevasse to be?

2. What object does Joe have trouble with in the beginning of the story?

3. What is a bergschrund?

4. Joe says that what is infectious?

5. What fifth step does Joe add to his pattern of movement through the moraines?

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