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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While abseiling deeper into the crevasse, Joe is certain of two things. What are they?
(a) Simon is dead and will never be found.
(b) Simon is gone and will not return.
(c) There is a way out of the crevasse and he will find it.
(d) Simon is alive and will come back for him.

3. When Joe finally reaches Bomb Alley, he immediately finds a trickle of water. How long has he gone without food or water?
(a) Three days.
(b) Eight days.
(c) One whole day.
(d) "Forever."

4. Besides the commands of the voice, what does Joe rely on to keep him going?
(a) Simon.
(b) His watch.
(c) The glacier.
(d) The heat.

5. Who does Simon get extremely angry at during his last full day at base camp?
(a) Spinoza.
(b) Gloria and Norma.
(c) Richard.
(d) The voice.

6. Why does Joe turn off his head torch?
(a) He can't stand the looks of his injury.
(b) So he can go to sleep.
(c) To save the batteries.
(d) So he can see out better.

7. When he finds a way out, what does Joe say he has that he didn't have before?
(a) A plan.
(b) An escape route.
(c) The will to live.
(d) Feeling in his fingers.

8. After the moraines, what is Joe's next destination goal?
(a) Bomb Alley.
(b) Lima.
(c) The lake.
(d) Base camp.

9. What method of movement does Joe first try when he is out of the crevasse?
(a) Tobogganing.
(b) Hopping.
(c) Nordic-walking.
(d) Spindrifting.

10. The human figures Joe sees in the broken ice of a cliff are in "bas-relief". What does this mean?
(a) Resting.
(b) Humming a bass-pitched tune.
(c) Projecting slightly from the background.
(d) Reclining.

11. What is the weather like when Simon begins to descend the mountain alone?
(a) Calm, silent, sunny, and warm.
(b) High winds with 20-below-zero wind chills.
(c) Scorching.
(d) A complete whiteout.

12. What fifth step does Joe add to his pattern of movement through the moraines?
(a) Retching.
(b) Swinging his ax at the rocks to vent stress.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Looking at his watch.

13. At seven o'clock on the eve of their departure from base camp, Simon and Richard hear a strange cry in the distance. What does Richard suggest it is?
(a) Joe's ghost.
(b) Tripes.
(c) A dog.
(d) Joe.

14. When Richard returns to base camp, he informs Simon that Spinoza will arrive with the donkeys when?
(a) At six o'clock tomorrow morning.
(b) Within two hours.
(c) After the girls are done making their cheese.
(d) Within the week.

15. After he falls into the crevasse, what does Joe see through the hole far above?
(a) Simon's body.
(b) Stars.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Clouds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the bas-relief figures doing?

2. What is the 4-step pattern of movement that Joe perfects to get through the moraines?

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

4. After 12 hours in the crevasse, Joe finally escapes. Although briefly mentioned in the chapter "In the Far Distance", a new character is now officially introduced. Who is it?

5. Simon recalls that he wanted to see Bolivia before returning to London. What country does Joe want to see?

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