Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. As he lowers himself deeper into the crevasse, what does Joe stare at?
2. What is the 4-step pattern of movement that Joe perfects to get through the moraines?
3. Who does Simon dread talking to upon his return to civilization?
4. What method of movement does Joe first try when he is out of the crevasse?
5. When Richard returns to base camp, he informs Simon that Spinoza will arrive with the donkeys when?
Short Essay Questions
1. Before setting out across the moraines, what does Joe do with his Karrimat?
2. Why is Joe so worried about losing Simon's tracks?
3. The morning after arriving back at base camp, Simon revisits his feelings about the place while urinating on a boulder. How does he describe these emotions?
4. When Simon sees the cliff over which Joe had been hanging, how does he feel?
5. What logic does Joe use to assume that Simon believes he is dead?
6. In the moraines, what device plays a crucial role in Joe's survival?
7. Through the moraines, Joe's watch is a strong preoccupation. Besides pain, what is his obsession?
8. While preparing for his escape attempt up the snow cone towards the light, how does Joe's view towards the crevasse briefly change?
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. After discovering that Simon had cut the rope, Joe turns off his head torch and cries himself to sleep. When he awakens, what are his immediate thoughts?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What would you do in a similar or identical predicament as Joe's? Simon's? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Joe provides a wealth of imagery when describing the figures he sees in the ice cliff shortly after emerging from the crevasse. Comment on these, providing at least five examples. When we read vivid descriptions, this usually leads our minds to other images of things that we have experienced. Describe what you see, as related to your own experience, when you read his descriptions. How do you relate to his descriptions? Do you see any significance in what these figures look like and/or in what the figures are doing? Do you view these figures as ambiguous in any way? If so, how? Which of Joe's primal needs or core beliefs are these figures appealing to or taunting, if any?
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?
|
This section contains 1,096 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
