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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 are Saxo and Winter headed back to Broli?
(a) To make a call to his wife.
(b) To get a tent.
(c) To get supplies.
(d) To finish writing his will.

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

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

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

5. What does Winter tell Rudi to do that scares him?
(a) That Winter might not go on the hike at all due to his condition.
(b) That they are climbing the Citadel today.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rudi venture out in another direction?

2. What suggested that Franz and the group would be the only ones on the Wunderhorn that day?

3. How did Rudi's mountaineer instinct come into play?

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

5. What did Captain Winter remind Rudi of when he was climbing?

(see the answer key)

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