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

2. What point of the Citadel was the highest point reached before?
(a) The Keep.
(b) The Fortress.
(c) The Battlement.
(d) The Peak.

3. How long had the Citadel been left alone?
(a) Eighteen years.
(b) Fourteen years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. What was the peak of the Citadel hidden behind?
(a) The peak of the Wunderhorn.
(b) A dense layer of mist.
(c) The shoulder of the Wunderhorn.
(d) A large cloud.

5. What made Rudi not want to go back to Kurtal?
(a) The mocking laughter of Klaus Weisselhoft.
(b) The dirty dishes at the Beau Site Hotel.
(c) His uncles' anger and his mother's tears.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Winter wasn't in as good of health, what did Rudi see was untempered?

2. What was the greatest sin a mountaineer can commit?

3. What does Winter tell Rudi to do that scares him?

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

5. What did the Citadel make all the other mountains around it look like?

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