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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. While Joe ponders the notion of being left, the rope goes slack. What does this mean?
2. How does Joe try to gauge their height on the mountain?
3. What device does Joe wish they had in their possession as they descend from the summit of Siula Grande?
4. When Joe knocks down a row of large icicles, he curses the pain of a...
5. What object does Joe have trouble with in the beginning of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens on The Bonatti Pillar on Les Petits Drus in the French Alps?
2. When beginning his climb for the summit from the bivouac site 300 feet below the summit, what pros and cons does Joe mention about climbing in the daylight?
3. Why does Joe consider standing on the summit an unsettling anticlimax?
4. While trying to find the North Ridge again after leaving the summit, what happens to Simon?
5. While thinking about the possibility of having fallen off the ridge while roped together, Joe talks about what incident witnessed by Simon?
6. Toward the end of "On the Edge", Joe awakens in the snow hole with what sensation?
7. On the first practice climb to Seria Norte, Joe loses sight of base camp and immediately notices what?
8. At the beginning of "Disaster", what is Joe's attitude?
9. In "Storm at the Summit", how does Joe get a bloody lip and a cracked tooth?
10. Compare or contrast the influence of the incident on The Bonatti Pillar on the climbing careers of Joe Simpson and Ian Whittaker.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and/or contrast Joe's use of patterns and rhythm throughout the book. Does he use them as a function of his personality, as a result of the essence of climbing, or out of necessity? Discuss the appearance of these patterns in climbing, in the rescue attempt, and in Joe's journey back to base camp.
Essay Topic 2
Did Simon do the right thing by cutting the rope? Joe staunchly defends him. Discuss the moral and ethical issues at hand.
Essay Topic 3
The Prologue of the book is the quote by T.E. Lawrence, preceding the first chapter. Why do you think the author chose this excerpt? What do you think it means? How is it significant? What does it have to do with the story?
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