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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mind Games.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method of movement does Joe first try when he is out of the crevasse?
(a) Tobogganing.
(b) Hopping.
(c) Spindrifting.
(d) Nordic-walking.

2. What does Joe do when the voice tells him what to do?
(a) He argues.
(b) He cries.
(c) He obeys.
(d) He ignores it.

3. What do the climbers run out of in the chapter "On the Edge"?
(a) Worry.
(b) Gas.
(c) Food.
(d) Snow for melting into water.

4. When Joe looks at the frayed end of the cut rope, what colors are the nylon filaments?
(a) Purple and yellow.
(b) White and pink.
(c) Green and brown.
(d) Red and blue.

5. What is verglas?
(a) A type of eye lens used to help climbers with vertigo.
(b) Vertical ice.
(c) A thin glaze of glass-like ice covering the rock.
(d) Vertical scree.

Short Answer Questions

1. After he falls into the crevasse, what does Joe see through the hole far above?

2. On what mountain range do two climbers witness the deaths of two other climbers?

3. Besides the commands of the voice, what does Joe rely on to keep him going?

4. Joe notes in the chapter "On the Edge" that any accident needing a rope to break a fall would be...

5. After seeing that the rope had been cut, Joe falls asleep. What wakes him?

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