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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 "Day Five: Trance Sanctuary".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brian decide to do when Ralston does not show up?
(a) Drive to Moab to look for him.
(b) Call the police and state it is unusual for Ralston to be more than 15 minutes late.
(c) Call Ralston's parents to tell them Ralston is missing.
(d) Give it 24 hours before filing a missing persons report.

2. When Ralston returns from his trip to Mount Holy Cross, what news does he hear about his friends?
(a) They are missing from a backcountry ski trip.
(b) They are hospitalized from an avalanche.
(c) They are hospitalized from a ski and snowboard accident.
(d) One dies in a ski accident, another is in the ICU from a snowboard accident.

3. As a raft guide, Ralston takes his friends on a night trip to what canyon?
(a) Brown's Canyon.
(b) Charlie's Canyon.
(c) Mary Jane Rapids.
(d) Colorado River.

4. Ralston decides to amputate his limb. What does he first use to try to make a tourniquet?
(a) Tubing from this Camelback.
(b) A belt.
(c) Rope.
(d) A shirt.

5. One of the hikers mentions that the pictures in the book "Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau" look like what?
(a) Zombies.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Dried raisins.
(d) Ghosts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ralston most impressed by during his ski trip with the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council?

2. What unusual act does Ralston try with his lip balm?

3. Ralston joins what school club when he moves to Colorado?

4. Who is Ralston's best friend that climbs his first "fourteener" with him?

5. Ralston surveys the route previous to a ski race and encounters what predicament?

(see the answer key)

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