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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promising information does Jason Halladay provide?
(a) The correct vehicle information needed.
(b) Ralston's canyon interests from a past email.
(c) He verifies the Holy Cross trip is cancelled.
(d) More contact information.

2. By Tuesday evening, who calls the police to file a missing persons report.
(a) Brian and Joe.
(b) Brad and Leah.
(c) Ralston's parents.
(d) Brian and Leona.

3. What location description is given to the dispatcher to describe Ralston's most likely whereabouts?
(a) Utah.
(b) Goblin Valley.
(c) Moab area.
(d) Canyonlands National Park.

4. What does Adam Crider find out from Ralston's debit card?
(a) His last purchase is in Green River.
(b) The last activity is on Friday of the previous week.
(c) His last purchase is in Moab.
(d) Ralston does not use his debit card on his trip.

5. How do you describe Ralston's personality?
(a) Spontaneous but shy.
(b) Emotionally adventurous.
(c) Technical and rational.
(d) Spiritual and emotional.

6. By what time is the first helicopter on the lookout for Ralston?
(a) 1:30 P.M.
(b) 2:00 P.M.
(c) 2:50 P.M.
(d) 11:30 A.M.

7. How does Steve from the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council help?
(a) He becomes the New Mexico contact person to avoid further confusion.
(b) He becomes the contact person to communicate with Ralston's mother.
(c) He maps out possible locations in Utah and volunteers time to search.
(d) He drives to Colorado to help with the search.

8. What does Ralston do with his urine before he sips on it?
(a) He filters it through his sock to separate the coarser sediments.
(b) He smells it.
(c) He distills and decants the sediments.
(d) He mixes it with what water is left to dilute the urine taste.

9. How do the two hikers identify Ralston's truck on Sunday?
(a) It has Ralston's name on the vanity license plate.
(b) Colorado license plates, skis, and bicycle gear.
(c) The truck has a Ute sticker on the back.
(d) Ralston tells them what it looks like.

10. At the bottom of a rappel, what does he find?
(a) A dead raven.
(b) A family of three to run for help.
(c) Water.
(d) Fresh footprints.

11. What stops Brad and Leah from going to the Saturday party?
(a) Leah is too tired.
(b) A flat tire and a missed turn.
(c) They never get specific directions.
(d) Ralston does not call them to say he is going.

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

13. Previously, Ralston asks for guidance and direction to understand why he is in this situation. However, by day four, Ralston prays for what?
(a) An angel to help free him from the chockstone.
(b) Leona to report him missing earlier than what he believes is reasonable.
(c) Patience to "see this through".
(d) His parents' understanding of his adventurous lifestyle.

14. What does Ralston dub his new goal after finishing all the fourteeners in Colorado during summertime?
(a) The Centennial State.
(b) Winter fourteens.
(c) Top 100.
(d) Thirteeners.

15. Once rescued and stabilized, where does Ralston meet his mother?
(a) A hospital in Denver.
(b) A hospital in Grand Junction.
(c) A clinic in Green River.
(d) A hospital in Moab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once free from the chockstone, what is on Ralston's mind?

2. How do you describe Ralston's video by Thursday in the canyon?

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

4. What does the dispatcher fail to tell those that file Ralston's missing persons report?

5. In addition to a helicopter, what other search group is called out to Horseshoe Canyon?

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