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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 does Joe not want to lose sight of on the glacier?
(a) Base camp.
(b) The lake.
(c) Simon's tracks.
(d) The North Star.

2. Joe says that what is infectious?
(a) Joe's knee.
(b) Joe's anger.
(c) Simon's fingers.
(d) Simon's confidence.

3. When Joe falls into the crevasse, what is the first thing he does when he realizes he is alive?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He yells for Simon.
(c) He looks for his head torch.
(d) He pulls on the rope.

4. Who witnesses two climbers in Europe fall to their deaths the year before?
(a) Al Rouse and Maurice Herzog.
(b) Simon Yates and Jon Sylvester.
(c) Simon Yates and Joe Simpson.
(d) Richard Hawking and Ian Whittaker.

5. When Joe encounters Simon's footprints, he describes them as sinuous. What does this mean?
(a) Reckless.
(b) Meandering.
(c) Equally spaced.
(d) As if he had been running.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joe and Simon move together along the ridge, how far behind Simon does Joe follow?

2. After he falls into the crevasse, what does Joe see through the hole far above?

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

4. After reciting a soliloquy as a preoccupying game, Joe realizes what?

5. What description does Joe lend to the sounds of icicles breaking away?

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