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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Silent Witness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is spindrift?
(a) Drifts that are spun like meringue.
(b) Snow-tornadoes.
(c) Snow drifting down in a dead calm.
(d) Powder snow swept up by the wind.

2. How are Joe and Ian rescued?
(a) By Simon.
(b) By donkey.
(c) By rescue helicopter.
(d) By Japanese climbers.

3. What collapses under Simon's feet?
(a) A snow ridge.
(b) An ice bridge.
(c) The summit.
(d) A crevice.

4. What does Simon say he and Joe have changed by climbing the mountain?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The record books.
(c) The mountain face.
(d) Everything.

5. How many hours do Joe and Ian hang on the rope before being rescued?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 1.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Simon lowers Joe down the mountain, how is Joe facing?

2. When Joe knocks down a row of large icicles, he curses the pain of a...

3. Joe says that what is infectious?

4. What does Joe do while he is waiting for Simon between lowerings?

5. When Joe first looks at his knee after his fall, how does he describe it?

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