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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Joe first looks at his knee after his fall, how does he describe it?
(a) As "kinked".
(b) As "cockeyed".
(c) As "bloody stuffed".
(d) As a "zigzag".

4. On their first night on Siula Grande, what do Joe and Simon sleep in?
(a) A tent.
(b) A pigsty.
(c) A natural cave.
(d) A man-made cave.

5. Which practice route does Al Rouse understate as 'a ridge of some difficulty'?
(a) Cerro Serapo.
(b) Rosario Norte.
(c) The South Ridge of Cerro Yantauri.
(d) The South Ridge of Seria Norte.

6. What is verglas?
(a) A thin glaze of glass-like ice covering the rock.
(b) Vertical ice.
(c) Vertical scree.
(d) A type of eye lens used to help climbers with vertigo.

7. What collapses under Simon's feet?
(a) An ice bridge.
(b) The summit.
(c) A crevice.
(d) A snow ridge.

8. In his climbing rhythm, Joe says to look at what?
(a) Your watch.
(b) Your feet.
(c) The ice axe.
(d) The ice.

9. What is a sticht plate?
(a) A high-altitude breathing apparatus.
(b) A belay device.
(c) A camming device.
(d) A cooking utensil.

10. Joe notes in the chapter "On the Edge" that any accident needing a rope to break a fall would be...
(a) Fatal.
(b) Just what they need.
(c) A bummer.
(d) Ideal.

11. What is directly under Joe when he hangs in front of the ice wall?
(a) A snow ribbon.
(b) A moraine.
(c) A summit.
(d) A crevasse.

12. What does Joe try to use to climb up the rope?
(a) A karabiner.
(b) A sticht plate.
(c) A Prussik knot.
(d) A "Friend".

13. While Joe struggles to dig a snow cave, Simon struggles to do what?
(a) To dig his own snow cave.
(b) To repair his sticht plate with his bare fingers.
(c) To repair his head torch with his bare fingers.
(d) To thaw out his fingers.

14. When thinking about being left on the mountain, Joe feels himself "teetering on the edge of..."
(a) A cliff.
(b) A crevasse.
(c) Panic.
(d) Lunacy.

15. What is a couloir?
(a) A gully.
(b) A snow formation.
(c) A wall.
(d) A species of colombine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the rope suddenly pulls on Simon with great force, what situation is Joe in that Simon cannot see?

3. What is a patina?

4. What do the climbers use to help them see at night?

5. Joe notes that some of the icicles are as thick as...

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