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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. How far into the crevasse does Joe guess he has fallen?
2. What does Joe see that makes him certain that he is going to get out of the crevasse?
3. What does Joe strap around his injured leg?
4. When sorting through Joe's possessions, what does Simon salvage?
5. Gloria and Norma are gawping at Simon. Why?
Short Essay Questions
1. While crawling away during his escape from the crevasse, what is Joe's most common excuse for stopping, and what persuades him to continue?
2. How does Joe describe his night in the moraines under the stars?
3. What does Joe discover upon reaching the "bottom" of the crevasse?
4. After learning that the rope had been cut and after getting some sleep in the crevasse, what are Joe's thoughts about the end of his life?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. Describe Joe's one article of clothing that Simon can't bring himself to burn.
8. Joe tells of the most difficult thing he has ever done, and the best view he has ever seen. What are these?
9. What logic does Joe use to assume that Simon believes he is dead?
10. As Simon descends Siula Grande at the beginning of "Silent Witness", how does he feel about the mountain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Did Simon do the right thing by cutting the rope? Joe staunchly defends him. Discuss the moral and ethical issues at hand.
Essay Topic 2
Joe provides a wealth of imagery when describing the figures he sees in the ice cliff shortly after emerging from the crevasse. Comment on these, providing at least five examples. When we read vivid descriptions, this usually leads our minds to other images of things that we have experienced. Describe what you see, as related to your own experience, when you read his descriptions. How do you relate to his descriptions? Do you see any significance in what these figures look like and/or in what the figures are doing? Do you view these figures as ambiguous in any way? If so, how? Which of Joe's primal needs or core beliefs are these figures appealing to or taunting, if any?
Essay Topic 3
Climbers acclimatize before a climb, meaning that they adjust to the conditions, especially the lower oxygen levels at high altitudes. To what other conditions, either physical or mental or both, does Joe "acclimatize" throughout the story?
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