View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Simon dread talking to upon his return to civilization?
(a) The police and Customs officials.
(b) The police and Joe's parents.
(c) Spinoza and Richard.
(d) Joe's parents and Joe's wife.

2. What does Joe do when the voice tells him what to do?
(a) He ignores it.
(b) He obeys.
(c) He cries.
(d) He argues.

3. To what does Joe compare the figures in the ice?
(a) Carvings inside a Hindu Temple.
(b) Answers #1, #2, and #3.
(c) A Renaissance painting in the Sistine Chapel.
(d) Paintings by Titian of grossly fat nudes.

4. What do Richard and Simon spend a considerable amount of time searching for, but never find?
(a) Simon's passport.
(b) The map.
(c) Joe's money.
(d) Simon's money.

5. What is the first thing Richard gives to Simon?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) The medicine bag.
(d) Tea.

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

7. After waking from his nightmare, what does Joe see?
(a) His breath against the snow roof.
(b) Stars.
(c) A way out.
(d) Sunlight reflecting off of his crampons.

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

9. What does Simon assume the foul taste in his mouth is from?
(a) Altitude sickness.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Pulmonary edema.
(d) Dehydration.

10. The morning after Simon cut the rope, he descends down the mountain. What does Simon believe to be Joe's fate?
(a) He has fallen into a crevasse.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has gone insane.
(d) He is alive.

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

12. What does Simon do with Joe's clothes?
(a) He gives them to Gloria and Norma.
(b) He packs them with Joe's camera and diary.
(c) He burns them in the riverbed.
(d) He puts them in a bag to give to Joe's parents.

13. 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?
(a) A pop song.
(b) His vow of revenge.
(c) The climber's oath.
(d) A Shakespeare soliloquy.

14. What is a bergschrund?
(a) A burgundy-colored, crunchy type of scree.
(b) A crevasse at the head of a mountain glacier.
(c) A natural amphitheatre.
(d) The hop of an injured climber.

15. 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?
(a) The soaring condor.
(b) Alecia.
(c) Paddington.
(d) The voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Joe shout over and over in the crevasse?

2. What does Joe do to find out if Simon has fallen to his death?

3. When Joe finally musters the courage to look down, what does he see in disbelief?

4. What does Joe see that makes him certain that he is going to get out of the crevasse?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 543 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample