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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 the dispatcher fail to tell those that file Ralston's missing persons report?
(a) What areas the police begin their search.
(b) The itinerary of the search plan.
(c) Ralston is not missing long enough to begin a search immediately.
(d) That it is up to them to notify Ralston's parents.

2. What does Ralston see overhead the next morning as he chips away at the chockstone?
(a) A vulture.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A raven.

3. In his first log, what is one thing Ralston mentions?
(a) Plans on how to get out.
(b) Memories of climbing the "fourteeners".
(c) The two hikers he meets on this trip.
(d) How he gets to where he is at now.

4. How does Mrs. Ralston and her friend attempt to get information on her son's whereabouts?
(a) They get his credit card and debit card information.
(b) They call all his friends.
(c) They hack into his email.
(d) They call his sister.

5. What does Ralston imagine hell to be like?
(a) A fiery cell with close, yet so far away, images of friends and family.
(b) A lonely, empty, cavernous room with no sleep.
(c) Despair wrapped in loneliness.
(d) A cold, desolate desert where warmth is a faint star far away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ralston compare his trances and reality to?

2. Considering Ralston's risky adventures, how does he see himself dying?

3. How do the two hikers identify Ralston's truck on Sunday?

4. What information does Elliot attempt to get from the Denali National Park Service?

5. What happens to Ralston's friendships after the avalanche?

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