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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Donna and Ann working on back in Denver?
(a) Calling the United Methodist Church in Utah to send a search party.
(b) A missing person's poster.
(c) A flight to Utah.
(d) Continuing to filter his emails for more information.

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

3. On the way to the party, what stops the two hikers from going?
(a) They cannot find the party.
(b) Their van gets a flat tire.
(c) They have an early morning the next day.
(d) They cannot find a place to sleep close to the party.

4. During the weekend Ralston gets trapped, where does he originally plan to go?
(a) Longs Peak.
(b) Mount of the Holy Cross.
(c) Mount Sopris.
(d) Quandary Peak.

5. Who does Mrs. Ralston recruit to help her decide what to do?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Ann.
(c) Elliot.
(d) Mr. Ralston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information are the police able to find from Ralston's credit and debit cards?

2. Ralston's first trance describes him going through what?

3. The day before getting trapped, what activity does Ralston indulge in?

4. What is Ralston most careful not to cut until the end of the amputation?

5. What is different about his last trance compared to all the other previous trances?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leona sense about Ralston's current situation from Boulder?

2. What characteristics of Ralston returns once safe in the helicopter and hospital?

3. Summarize Brad and Leah's weekend after leaving Ralston near Mount Sopris. Note the circumstances that affects the timing of Ralston's rescue.

4. Other than taste, what other factors does Ralston have to consider when deciding on whether to drink his urine?

5. Sleepless in the canyon, Ralston is reminded of what other occasion in his life and why?

6. According to Ralston's perspective, what is happening to time?

7. Once Ralston is missing, how does his friends handle the situation?

8. As time continues in the canyon, what does Ralston's water supply mean to him?

9. What is Ralston's agenda between leaving his house on Spruce Street on Thursday and the Saturday he becomes trapped in the canyon?

10. From Ralston's perspective, what significance is there in knowing what his friends are doing during his entrapment?

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