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

2. What is different about his last trance compared to all the other previous trances?
(a) Ralston is an active participant in the last trance.
(b) Ralston is able to speak with the people he sees.
(c) Ralston is able to control the direction on his own without a guide.
(d) Ralston feels he is present in both planes, the imaginary and the reality.

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

4. What information does Elliot attempt to get from the Denali National Park Service?
(a) Ralston's license plate number.
(b) Ralston's email address.
(c) Ralston's old New Mexico address.
(d) Ralston's Denali team members' contact information.

5. Who does Ralston originally forget and then remember to talk to on his videotape?
(a) Chad.
(b) Garrett.
(c) Mark.
(d) Scott.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the way to the party, what stops the two hikers from going?

3. What do Brad and Leah determine when they do not see Ralston in Utah?

4. How does Ralston discover the idea of breaking his bones to amputate his arm?

5. At the bottom of a rappel, what does he find?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the feeling and mood of Ralston's trances?

3. If Ralston knows how to successfully amputate his arm days earlier, does the outcome be the same or different? How come?

4. How does Ralston survive a night outside in a whiteout storm?

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

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

7. Summarize the two hikers' weekend after they leave Ralston in the canyon, right before his entrapment. Note the circumstances that affects the timing of Ralston's rescue.

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

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

10. What training does Ralston do within a 60 hour period that tells him he is ready for his Denali trip?

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