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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harrer recommend to climbers for protection from rocks?
(a) Sheets of protective metal.
(b) Protective climbing suits.
(c) Plastic crash helmets.
(d) Quick wits.

2. What does Harrer suggest happened on the climb?
(a) Despite appearances, Nothdurft's party was climbing along with Corti and Longhi.
(b) The parties were unaware of each other for much of the climb.
(c) Nothdurft's party was trapped behind Corti and Longhi.
(d) Corti and Longhi were trapped beind Nothdurft's party.

3. To what does Harrer attribute the fact that Longhi was unable to climb up the rope after he fell?
(a) It would have been impossible.
(b) His wrist was strained and swollen.
(c) He didn't know the proper technique.
(d) He was disoriented by the fall.

4. What did Hellepart give Corti when he first contacted him?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Bread.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Chocolate.

5. How many parties successfully climbed the North Face in 1952?
(a) Four.
(b) Three
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

6. Whose climb up the North Face was reclassified as a success between the original publication of the book and the addition of the appended section?
(a) Vaucher and Attinger.
(b) Gonda and Wyss.
(c) Etter and Henkel.
(d) Corti and Longhi.

7. Why did Karl Blach take Huber's place?
(a) Huber was injured in an avalanche.
(b) Huber was feeling ill.
(c) Huber twisted his ankle.
(d) Huber was injured by a rock.

8. Where were Nothdurft and Mayer's bodies finally found?
(a) At the top of the Spider.
(b) At the top of the mountain near the west face.
(c) Near the Ramp.
(d) Lower down the east face of the mountain.

9. How did Helmuth Drachsler and Walter Gstrein climb past the Spider?
(a) Up a wall to the right.
(b) Up a wall to the left.
(c) They didn't.
(d) Up the center of the Spider.

10. Where was solo climber Diether Marchart on the mountain's face when he fell and died?
(a) Between the First Ice Field and the Second Ice Field.
(b) On the Spider.
(c) On the Hinterstoisser Traverse.
(d) On the Third Ice Field.

11. How did von Almen watch Mayr's ascent?
(a) From the foot of the North Face with binoculars.
(b) Through a telescope.
(c) From the railway window.
(d) From an airplane.

12. What cliff on the North Face did Karl Reiss attempt to climb?
(a) A cliff from the Second Ice Field to the Third Ice Field.
(b) A cliff from the First Ice Field to the Second Ice Field.
(c) A cliff from the Third Ice Field to the Spider.
(d) A cliff from the Spider to the summit.

13. What nationality were Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer?
(a) French.
(b) Swiss.
(c) Austrian.
(d) German.

14. What makes the Silver Trench silver?
(a) Glassy gray rocks rising up through the snow.
(b) A vein of silver in the mountain.
(c) Glittering light on a rushing stream.
(d) Light gleaming off the ice.

15. Where did Boulaz, Attinger, Vaucher, and Darbellay bivouac on their second night?
(a) Near the Ramp.
(b) At the Mittellegi Hut.
(c) At the Swallow's Nest.
(d) Near the Ice Hose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Nothdurft and Mayer visit before their climb, after they left the inn?

2. How many successful ascents of the North Face were made in 1956?

3. Was Nothdurft's diary found?

4. What year was the final section of the book added?

5. What site was Alfred Hellepart lowered down to for the rescue attempt?

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