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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is blue ice?
2. Why are Simon's fingertips turning black?
3. Who witnesses two climbers in Europe fall to their deaths the year before?
4. How does Joe try to gauge their height on the mountain?
5. What does Joe say about bivouac sites?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Simon and Joe avoid the issue of discussing their game plan after Joe's injury?
2. What occurs to Joe at the beginning of "On the Edge"?
3. Joe says that a 'warm feeling' stays with him while Simon lowers him. What 'warm feeling' is he referring to?
4. Why does Joe consider standing on the summit an unsettling anticlimax?
5. Joe describes the beginning of their practice climb on Yantauri as 'inauspicious' (p24). Why?
6. What does Joe like about Simon's personality?
7. At the beginning of "Disaster", what is Joe's attitude?
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. What is Joe's plan of action if Simon falls through, or off, the ridge again?
10. After breaking his leg, why doesn't Joe ask Simon for help?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Revisit the Shakespeare soliloquy that Joe hears in his head and eventually recites. Why does this verse come to mind, and why is he familiar with it? Why is it significant that a soliloquy surfaces in his mind, and not another type of speech or writing? What inherent characteristics of a soliloquy make it appropriate to Joe's current circumstances? Does the content of the Shakespeare piece have any significance to Joe's situation? How do you interpret the soliloquy?
Essay Topic 2
Joe experiences voices, music in his head, hallucinations, delusions, and blackouts. Research the effects of pain, starvation, and dehydration on the brain and relate them to Joe's ordeal and what he experiences. Are his symptoms surprising? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Why do Joe and Simon work so well together? What qualities does Simon possess that are attractive to Joe? Would things have turned out differently (either better or worse) if Joe would have had a different partner?
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