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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Ralston's left hand to swell?
(a) The heat.
(b) The chockstone hit his hand before pinning him.
(c) Hitting his hand with a rock when trying to hammer the knife.
(d) The pressure of the knife trying to chip away the chockstone.

2. When climbing Humphrey's Peak, what danger does Ralston encounter?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) A cougar.
(c) A grizzly bear.
(d) Thunder and lightning.

3. What is John Griffith's first job?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Rancher.
(c) Baker.
(d) Cook.

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

5. Conserving water, how often does Ralston takes sips in the beginning of his entrapment?
(a) Once an hour.
(b) Every 90 minutes.
(c) After each successful flake is chipped away.
(d) Every two hours.

6. What is the name of the first "fourteener" Ralston climbs with his friend?
(a) Lilly Peak.
(b) Randall Peak.
(c) Longs Peak.
(d) Twin Peaks.

7. Where does the gang separate after a shootout?
(a) Lee's Ferry.
(b) Roost Canyon.
(c) Tombstone.
(d) OK Corral.

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

9. What excites Ralston most when he summits Maroon Bells in the wintertime?
(a) The sunset over Pyramids Peak.
(b) He gets a news story about him.
(c) He set a record of fastest climb up Maroon Bells.
(d) He does it five hrs faster than in summertime.

10. Despite the futility of chipping away at the chockstone, why does Ralston continue to do so?
(a) He believes it is not futile.
(b) Out of anger.
(c) Out of boredom.
(d) To generate body heat.

11. What stops Ralston from amputating his arm this time?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He has no tools to cut his bones.
(c) He considers the possibility of still saving his limb.
(d) The tourniquet keeps getting loose.

12. What sound does Ralston compare the beginning of an avalanche to?
(a) A sonic boom.
(b) A large crash.
(c) An oncoming train.
(d) A diesel engine.

13. The boulder that pins Ralston's arm is compared to what in size?
(a) A Volkswagon Beetle.
(b) A bus tire.
(c) A refrigerator.
(d) An oven.

14. Why does Ralston acknowledge Warren MacDonald in his time of entrapment?
(a) MacDonald is the first to climb all the fourteeners of Colorado.
(b) MacDonald has his arms amputated during the Korean War.
(c) MacDonald is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon.
(d) MacDonald loses his limbs in a hiking accident.

15. What disease does Betty contract as a child?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Polio.
(c) Measles.
(d) Rubella.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Humphrey's peak, what does Ralston share with his friend Mark?

2. What does Ralston drop when he attempts to place it safely into his pack with the swollen hand?

3. Ralston attends what university?

4. What part of Ralston's arm is crushed between the boulder and the canyon wall?

5. Why does Ralston recount his recent solo adventures?

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