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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What side of Siula Grande do Joe and Simon have the ambition to conquer?
(a) The West Face.
(b) The North Face.
(c) The South Face.
(d) The East Face.

3. How does Joe compare his fitness with Simon's?
(a) Joe and Simon are both out of shape.
(b) Joe and Simon are equally matched.
(c) Joe is more fit than Simon.
(d) Simon is more fit than Joe.

4. How long is one length of climbing rope?
(a) 150 metres.
(b) A hundredweight.
(c) 150 feet.
(d) 300 feet.

5. What is the elevation of Siula Grande?
(a) 4,500 feet.
(b) 21,000 feet.
(c) 21,000 metres.
(d) 29,000 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe doing in the opening scene?

2. When thinking about being left on the mountain, Joe feels himself "teetering on the edge of..."

3. What is a sticht plate?

4. What is a "Friend"?

5. What collapses under Simon's feet?

(see the answer key)

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