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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Land Without Pity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After lowering Joe down, what is Simon's signal that Joe needs to take his weight off the rope?
(a) Three flashes of his head torch.
(b) Giving slack to the rope.
(c) Three tugs on the rope.
(d) Three arm waves.

2. A hundredweight of icicles falls on Joe's head. How much is this?
(a) 100 grams.
(b) 100 kilograms.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) About 100 icicles.

3. After close inspection, what does Joe determine the "floor" of the crevasse to be?
(a) The fragile ceiling of a lower cavern.
(b) A dead end.
(c) Snow-covered rock.
(d) Not really snow at all.

4. What does Joe say about bivouac sites?
(a) He usually dislikes them.
(b) They are cold.
(c) They are convenient.
(d) They are hidden.

5. When he finds a way out, what does Joe say he has that he didn't have before?
(a) The will to live.
(b) A plan.
(c) An escape route.
(d) Feeling in his fingers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon do with Joe's clothes?

2. What is verglas?

3. Simon feels as if the whole struggle up until he cuts the rope is the deliberate scheme of whom?

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

5. How does Simon cut the rope?

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