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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On the Edge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Joe and Simon climb at the beginning of the ascent on Siula Grande?
(a) An ice wall.
(b) A buttress.
(c) A fluting.
(d) A granite spire.

2. What is a couloir?
(a) A wall.
(b) A snow formation.
(c) A species of colombine.
(d) A gully.

3. What is the name of the rock that Joe and Ian climb?
(a) The Rock of Gibraltar.
(b) Chamonix.
(c) The Bonatti Pillar.
(d) Les Petits Drus.

4. At the end of the chapter "On the Edge", Joe notes what about the day?
(a) It had been "neither enjoyable nor funny".
(b) It had been "brilliant".
(c) It had been "a scrabbling nightmare".
(d) It had been "what we live for".

5. What device does Joe wish they had in their possession as they descend from the summit of Siula Grande?
(a) A GPS.
(b) A satellite phone.
(c) A flare gun.
(d) A compass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon insist that Joe not do on this trip?

2. A character in the book recounts an incident where one climber is dragged off a cliff while roped to his partner. What nationality are these climbers?

3. How does Joe try to gauge their height on the mountain?

4. What is spindrift?

5. At what altitude does Joe realize that both he and Simon have set a personal altitude record?

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