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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tears in the Night, Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joe describe the shape of the crevasse chamber where he has been?
(a) A figure-8.
(b) Football-shaped.
(c) Hourglass-shaped.
(d) Pear-shaped.

2. How many hours do Joe and Ian hang on the rope before being rescued?
(a) 12.
(b) 21.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

4. How does Simon view the climb after determining that Joe has died?
(a) One for the record books.
(b) Awesome.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Brilliant.

5. What does Simon say he and Joe have changed by climbing the mountain?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The record books.
(c) The mountain face.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joe describe the look in Simon's eyes when he tells Simon that he has broken his leg?

2. What causes Joe to go unconscious in the final scene of the story?

3. Why does Joe return to Siula Grande after 17 years?

4. What becomes Joe's obsession in the moraines?

5. After his first night in a snow cave since exiting the crevasse, Joe awakens, screaming from a nightmare about the crevasse, in which he was reciting what?

(see the answer key)

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