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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Final Choice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joe notes in the chapter "On the Edge" that any accident needing a rope to break a fall would be...
(a) A bummer.
(b) Fatal.
(c) Just what they need.
(d) Ideal.

2. What does Joe do while he is waiting for Simon between lowerings?
(a) He screams at Simon to slow down.
(b) He reties the knot between the ropes.
(c) He digs a bucket seat in the snow for Simon.
(d) He traverses the slope to get out of Simon's way.

3. When thinking about being left on the mountain, Joe feels himself "teetering on the edge of..."
(a) Lunacy.
(b) A cliff.
(c) A crevasse.
(d) Panic.

4. How does Joe describe the look in Simon's eyes when he tells Simon that he has broken his leg?
(a) 'As if he were saying "No comment"'.
(b) 'Full of...a distance given to a wounded animal which could not be helped.'
(c) 'Exhibiting an instant connection to my plight.'
(d) 'Unthinking.'

5. At one of the lowering changeovers, Simon smiles at Joe, and Joe realizes that their partnership...
(a) Has gone from bad to worse.
(b) Had been a bad idea.
(c) Is accident-prone.
(d) Is just as effective and had turned from climbing to rescue.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his accident with Ian, Joe regains his desire to climb, except for the dread of what?

2. What is a couloir?

3. What does Joe mean by a "tortured" cornice?

4. When Joe first looks at his knee after his fall, how does he describe it?

5. A hundredweight of icicles falls on Joe's head. How much is this?

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