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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. How does Joe describe Simon's eyes?
(a) Brown and mad.
(b) Blue and laughing.
(c) Bright green.
(d) Steel blue.

2. What is blue ice?
(a) Rock that looks like ice.
(b) Ice that is blue in color.
(c) Glacial ice that is clear.
(d) Ice that turns blue when viewed through sunglasses.

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

4. Where does Richard sleep on the way up to base camp?
(a) In his tent.
(b) In a snow cave.
(c) In a pigsty.
(d) In a hammock.

5. When Joe and Simon move together, Joe moves only when...
(a) The whiteout is over.
(b) He can see Simon.
(c) Simon gives him the signal.
(d) The rope moves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a couloir?

2. Joe notes in the chapter "On the Edge" that any accident needing a rope to break a fall would be...

3. What does Simon insist that Joe not do on this trip?

4. What is a Karrimat?

5. When Joe falls and lands on the slope at the base of the cliff, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. On the first practice climb to Seria Norte, Joe loses sight of base camp and immediately notices what?

3. What happens on The Bonatti Pillar on Les Petits Drus in the French Alps?

4. Toward the end of "On the Edge", Joe awakens in the snow hole with what sensation?

5. 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?

6. While trying to find the North Ridge again after leaving the summit, what happens to Simon?

7. At the beginning of "Disaster", what is Joe's attitude?

8. In "Disaster", Joe says, 'In an instant an uncrossable gap had come between us and we were no longer a team working together.' In "The Final Choice", how has Joe's view changed?

9. Describe the Peruvian family that lives in the huts.

10. What does Joe like about Simon's personality?

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