Quiz

SHOULD YOU BE ALIVE?

3= Congratulations! You're a survival expert. You're prepared, levelheaded in a crisis and able to deal with extreme conflict with ease. You should feel comfortable in the wilderness.

1. You're hiking on an elevated mountain ridge when suddenly a boulder dislodges, pinning you against a rock wall. You:

Stay calm and ask your hiking buddy to grab a branch and pry the boulder off.

Have been hiking alone and try your cell phone to call a park ranger.

Find yourself ill prepared with no supplies, no help and scream your head off.

2. While skiing you unwittingly set off an avalanche that engulfs you, leaving you buried in a mound of snow. You:

Become panicked and begin to hyperventilate.

Stay calm because you know you are prepared with a personal GPS device.

Are distressed, but calmly begin to dig in the direction you think is out.

3. While you're deep-sea fishing off the coast of Mexico, your small fishing boat is suddenly caught in a squall and capsizes. You:

Never took swimming lessons, can't tread water and didn't wear your life jacket.

Regret not preparing but kick off your shoes & rig makeshift flotation devices.

Keep a level head. You're glad you wore a life jacket and grab the flares.

4. While taking a leisurely after-dinner stroll in your hillside neighborhood, you encounter a mountain lion. You:

Stop, make yourself appear larger by picking up a branch and defend yourself.

Scream "Cougar!" Then run in the opposite direction.

Back away slowly and try to calmly talk the animal into submission.

5. Snorkeling in St. Croix, you stop to adjust your mask, step on a poisonous lionfish, and cut yourself on sharp coral. What do you do?

Immediately swim to shore and call an ambulance.

Continue swimming and hope the pain will subside.

Try to suck the poison out, struggle to stay afloat and bleed in open water.

6. Camping in Yosemite, you encounter an angry bear with two curious cubs. You ...

Talk to the bear calmly and give her food.

Turn and run.

Stay calm; make eye contact; grab your pepper spray and blast the bear.

7. Visiting Joshua Tree National Park, you are walking a trail when a rattlesnake bites you. What do you do?

Suck out the venom with your mouth.

Use the suction device in your snakebite kit to suck out the poison & get help.

Go on with your hike. Snake handlers are bitten all time.

8. Your small twin-engine plane goes down in a snowstorm and you land in a frigid mountain snowbank. You:

Happen to have a pocketknife, waterproof matches and start a fire for the night.

Stay with the plane and wrap yourself in blankets.

Go on a hunt for food in the blizzard, leaving the plane behind.

9. Vacationing with your family in Hawaii, you catch a wave with your surfboard, but are then dragged under by a shark. You:

Scream and thrash, causing a loud commotion.

Maintain your calm, fight the shark off with a firm punch & swim to shore.

Struggle to stay above water, finally breaking free to retrieve your surfboard.

10. Golfing in South Carolina you stumble upon an alligator in a sand trap. You:

Throw pinecones at it to see if it's alive.

Back away slowly and move to another location.