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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the narrator when italic print is used in the book?
(a) Simon.
(b) The editor.
(c) Richard.
(d) Joe.
2. How does Joe describe the look in Simon's eyes when he tells Simon that he has broken his leg?
(a) 'As if he were saying "No comment"'.
(b) 'Unthinking.'
(c) 'Exhibiting an instant connection to my plight.'
(d) 'Full of...a distance given to a wounded animal which could not be helped.'
3. Who is the first character mentioned by the author?
(a) Simon.
(b) Joe's parents.
(c) Ian.
(d) Richard.
4. 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".
5. What does Joe assume Simon will do when he finds out that he has broken his leg?
(a) Simon will stay and die with him.
(b) Simon will help him.
(c) Simon will flip out.
(d) Simon will leave him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a couloir?
2. What does Joe do to stifle the nausea caused by the pain?
3. Joe recalls an incident with climber Ian Whittaker in which country?
4. On what route do two climbers witness the deaths of two other climbers?
5. Joe says that what is infectious?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Joe like about Simon's personality?
2. On page 65 in "On the Edge", Joe says, 'Funny how my anxiety [about Simon's frostbitten fingers] seemed to have more to do with whether he would be able to carry on climbing after we got down rather than concern for his injuries'. Why is this statement significant?
3. Why is Joe nervous about the first bivouac site?
4. After breaking his leg, why doesn't Joe ask Simon for help?
5. Explain how Joe feels for the two days immediately prior to setting out for Siula Grande.
6. Toward the end of "On the Edge", Joe awakens in the snow hole with what sensation?
7. While trying to find the North Ridge again after leaving the summit, what happens to Simon?
8. After Joe tells Simon that he has broken his leg, he describes the pitiful look that Simon gives him as, 'a distance given to a wounded animal which could not be helped' (p74). From Simon's point of view, why does he give him this look?
9. Why does Joe consider standing on the summit an unsettling anticlimax?
10. On page 65, Joe says, 'I knew it would be a good day.' By the end of the day, how and why does his view of the day change?
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