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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. What description does Joe lend to the sounds of icicles breaking away?
(a) Cracking.
(b) Like glass shattering.
(c) Clanging.
(d) Chandelier sounds.

2. After seeing that the rope had been cut, Joe falls asleep. What wakes him?
(a) The sounds of the glacier.
(b) The cold.
(c) Someone shouting.
(d) A nightmare of falling.

3. How does Joe get through the moraines?
(a) Crawling.
(b) Hopping and falling.
(c) Scooting on his left side.
(d) Walking.

4. When Joe and Simon move together, Joe moves only when...
(a) He can see Simon.
(b) The rope moves.
(c) The whiteout is over.
(d) Simon gives him the signal.

5. Who is the first character mentioned by the author?
(a) Richard.
(b) Joe's parents.
(c) Simon.
(d) Ian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe do to find out if Simon has fallen to his death?

2. Joe reaches an open void while abseiling deep into the crevasse, and he struggles to continue. He compares the sensation to which experience?

3. What are Joe Simpson and Ian Whittaker doing when the ground breaks out from underneath them?

4. What is blue ice?

5. What is the 4-step pattern of movement that Joe perfects to get through the moraines?

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