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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. When Joe knocks down a row of large icicles, he curses the pain of a...
(a) Broken heel.
(b) Shattered femur.
(c) Broken knee joint.
(d) Cracked tooth.

2. While Simon is lowering Joe, Joe swears a lot, mostly at...
(a) The snow.
(b) Simon.
(c) The cold.
(d) His crampons.

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

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

5. On what mountain range do two climbers witness the deaths of two other climbers?
(a) The French Alps.
(b) The Spanish Pyrenees.
(c) The Himalayas.
(d) The French Andes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Joe and Ian rescued?

2. What does Joe mean by a "tortured" cornice?

3. Simon tells Joe that he is knackered. What does this mean?

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

5. What is the first thing Simon says to Joe after Joe tells him about the broken leg?

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