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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 does Joe strap around his injured leg?
(a) His sleeping bag.
(b) His Karrimat.
(c) The rope.
(d) His harness.

2. How does Joe describe the shape of the crevasse chamber where he has been?
(a) Football-shaped.
(b) A figure-8.
(c) Hourglass-shaped.
(d) Pear-shaped.

3. What fifth step does Joe add to his pattern of movement through the moraines?
(a) Swinging his ax at the rocks to vent stress.
(b) Retching.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Looking at his watch.

4. After reciting a soliloquy as a preoccupying game, Joe realizes what?
(a) That he hates Shakespeare.
(b) That last night's storm is not over.
(c) That he's in a snow cave.
(d) That he is desperately thirsty.

5. What method of movement does Joe first try when he is out of the crevasse?
(a) Hopping.
(b) Tobogganing.
(c) Nordic-walking.
(d) Spindrifting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Joe shout over and over in the crevasse?

2. At seven o'clock on the eve of their departure from base camp, Simon and Richard hear a strange cry in the distance. What does Richard suggest it is?

3. After Bomb Alley, what is Joe's next objective?

4. What are the bas-relief figures doing?

5. What does Simon say he and Joe have changed by climbing the mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Joe so worried about losing Simon's tracks?

2. Joe tells of the most difficult thing he has ever done, and the best view he has ever seen. What are these?

3. After learning that the rope had been cut and after getting some sleep in the crevasse, what are Joe's thoughts about the end of his life?

4. Before setting out across the moraines, what does Joe do with his Karrimat?

5. As Simon turns for one last look at Siula Grande, what goes through his mind?

6. While abseiling to the right of the wall over which Joe had tumbled, why does Simon suddenly stop his descent?

7. After he sees the frayed ends of the cut rope, what goes through Joe's mind?

8. When Joe finally clears the crevasses of the glacier and arrives at the moraines, what painful condition does he realize that he is stricken with, and how does he describe it?

9. While trying to reach base camp, what single thought springs Joe into action, but also holds the possibility of being the final death of him?

10. Why does Joe decide to descend deeper into the crevasse?

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