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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 "Day Six: Enlightenment and Euphoria".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ralston discover when he pokes his pinned thumb?
(a) He can no longer feel his hand.
(b) Gases release and it is decomposing faster than he thinks.
(c) The feeling returns to his hand.
(d) There is gangrene.

2. How is Ralston saved from the river?
(a) Ralston eventually swims to the riverbank.
(b) Friends pull Ralston in with a rope.
(c) Jean-March dives in to save Ralston.
(d) Chad dives in to save Ralston.

3. Ralston compares his freedom to being born again, but with what important difference?
(a) He is not vulnerable.
(b) He is coming from a dry desolate place this time.
(c) He feels a sense of accomplishment from making it happen.
(d) He now knows the values of family and friends.

4. Sonja moves to what state for college?
(a) Texas.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Arizona.
(d) New Mexico.

5. By the second day, how does Ralston feel the ordeal ends?
(a) With an amputated limb and rescue.
(b) In death.
(c) Ute Mountaineering start the missing persons report and begin a search and rescue.
(d) Hikers find and rescue him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Ralston to have an erratic heartbeat and sunken eyes?

2. What location description is given to the dispatcher to describe Ralston's most likely whereabouts?

3. After the near drowning incident, what does Ralston share with Sonja that night?

4. During a hike at Havasupai Canyon, what happens to Ralston near Beaver Falls?

5. What is Ralston's mother's immediate reaction to the phone call informing her that her son is missing?

(see the answer key)

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