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

2. Why was Rudi frustrated and shamed when he came to the crack?
(a) It was the first time in which he had needed assistance from the others.
(b) He was hauled up like a bundle of firewood.
(c) He had dangled.
(d) He had slipped and fallen.

3. 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) That Winter might not go on the hike at all due to his condition.
(c) That they are climbing the Citadel today.
(d) Go down to Kurtal and convince his uncle to come up.

4. What in the rock glittered like diamonds?
(a) Quartz.
(b) Mica.
(c) Gold.
(d) Hematite.

5. What did the Citadel make all the other mountains around it look like?
(a) Molehills.
(b) Foothills.
(c) Baby hills.
(d) Practice mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Rudi cry out?

2. Under how many feet of snow was Winter buried?

3. How did Rudi's uncle respond to him threading the needle?

4. Why did Saxo think that Josef and Stephenson couldn't find the way up the eastern face?

5. Why did Rudi venture out in another direction?

(see the answer key)

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