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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 is lighter.
(c) He had given Rudi the gear.
(d) He encouraged Franz to let him go.

2. What did Rudi still have in his hands?
(a) The ax.
(b) His crampons.
(c) The rope.
(d) Balls of snow.

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

4. What warmed Rudi more than either tent or blanket?
(a) The group trusted Rudi.
(b) Rudi was actually on the mountain he'd dreamed of as a kid.
(c) The fact that he had gotten lead.
(d) His uncle's presence.

5. Why didn't Rudi cry out?
(a) He knew his strongest effort on the surface would be little more than a whisper.
(b) He worried that his voice could trigger a fresh avalanche.
(c) He didn't think the other two people in his party would be alive to hear him.
(d) He felt that he would look wimpy to Saxo and Winter if he were to call out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how high is the top of the Wunderhorn?

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

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

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

5. How long had the Citadel been left alone?

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