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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. Why did Rudi believe that Winter would make it?
(a) Winter had united two warring provincial towns.
(b) Winter was the epitome of a decent man.
(c) It had been Winter's dream to climb the Citadel before all of them.
(d) He of them all deserved the most to make it.

2. Why does Winter volunteer to go after Rudi?
(a) He encouraged Franz to let him go.
(b) He is lighter.
(c) He is more able.
(d) He had given Rudi the gear.

3. What suggested that Franz and the group would be the only ones on the Wunderhorn that day?
(a) Franz had booked the mountain path for Captain Winter and to train Rudi.
(b) There was no one ahead nor behind them.
(c) No one else had stirred with them that morning.
(d) Everyone had said the night before where they were going.

4. How did Rudi's mountaineer instinct come into play?
(a) He anchored himself and refused to let the avalanche take him.
(b) He maintained his hold on the rope that was lashed to the other two climbers.
(c) He put his arm over his face giving himself breathing room.
(d) He swam through the snow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rudi venture out in another direction?

2. Where had Winter been hurt?

3. Why didn't Rudi cry out?

4. What was the main reason that Saxo gave that he wouldn't climb with Franz?

5. Why does Rudi think he can make it through the eye of the needle?

(see the answer key)

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