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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 was the greatest sin a mountaineer can commit?
(a) Falling.
(b) Scouting ahead without telling anyone where he was going.
(c) Making others risk their lives to save his.
(d) Making the employer risk his life to save his.

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

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

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

5. What was the main reason that Saxo gave that he wouldn't climb with Franz?
(a) "A Kurtaler is too good to climb with a man of Broli".
(b) " A man of Broli does not climb with a Kurtaler".
(c) "A man of Broli is more skilled than a Kurtaler".
(d) "A man of Broli is better than a Kurtaler".

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Rudi frustrated and shamed when he came to the crack?

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

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

4. What was the peak of the Citadel hidden behind?

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

(see the answer key)

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