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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. After reciting a soliloquy as a preoccupying game, Joe realizes what?
(a) That he's in a snow cave.
(b) That last night's storm is not over.
(c) That he is desperately thirsty.
(d) That he hates Shakespeare.

2. What does Joe lack the courage to do?
(a) Talk.
(b) Move his leg.
(c) Climb out.
(d) Commit suicide.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After waking from his nightmare, what does Joe see?

2. When Joe encounters Simon's footprints, he describes them as sinuous. What does this mean?

3. What does Simon assume the foul taste in his mouth is from?

4. While abseiling deeper into the crevasse, Joe is certain of two things. What are they?

5. What fifth step does Joe add to his pattern of movement through the moraines?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Joe finally clears the crevasses of the glacier and arrives at the moraines, what painful condition does he realize that he is stricken with, and how does he describe it?

2. Describe Joe's one article of clothing that Simon can't bring himself to burn.

3. The morning after arriving back at base camp, Simon revisits his feelings about the place while urinating on a boulder. How does he describe these emotions?

4. When Simon sees the cliff over which Joe had been hanging, how does he feel?

5. What does Joe discover upon reaching the "bottom" of the crevasse?

6. While trying to reach base camp, what single thought springs Joe into action, but also holds the possibility of being the final death of him?

7. While preparing for his escape attempt up the snow cone towards the light, how does Joe's view towards the crevasse briefly change?

8. After discovering that Simon had cut the rope, Joe turns off his head torch and cries himself to sleep. When he awakens, what are his immediate thoughts?

9. While abseiling to the right of the wall over which Joe had tumbled, why does Simon suddenly stop his descent?

10. Through the moraines, Joe's watch is a strong preoccupation. Besides pain, what is his obsession?

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