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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Needle's Eye.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although Winter wasn't in as good of health, what did Rudi see was untempered?
(a) His strong will.
(b) His health.
(c) His ambition.
(d) His spirit.

2. What did Rudi still have in his hands?
(a) The ax.
(b) His crampons.
(c) Balls of snow.
(d) The rope.

3. What does Winter tell Rudi to do that scares him?
(a) That they are climbing the Citadel today.
(b) That Winter might not go on the hike at all due to his condition.
(c) Go down to Kurtal and convince his uncle to come up.
(d) That they have twenty-four hours to get up and down the mountain.

4. What did Captain Winter remind Rudi of when he was climbing?
(a) A mountain lion.
(b) A jousting warrior.
(c) A cat.
(d) A man struggling with inanimate rock.

5. Why didn't Rudi cry out?
(a) He felt that he would look wimpy to Saxo and Winter if he were to call out.
(b) He worried that his voice could trigger a fresh avalanche.
(c) He didn't think the other two people in his party would be alive to hear him.
(d) He knew his strongest effort on the surface would be little more than a whisper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how high is the top of the Wunderhorn?

2. What made Rudi not want to go back to Kurtal?

3. Why did Rudi believe that Winter would make it?

4. Why does Winter volunteer to go after Rudi?

5. What point of the Citadel was the highest point reached before?

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