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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Rudi keep near when he had approached the area in which the avalanche had occurred the day before?
(a) The left hand side.
(b) The center or the slide area.
(c) The rock wall.
(d) The right hand side.

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

4. Who would substitute for Rudi at the hotel?
(a) Franz Lerner.
(b) Herr Hemit.
(c) Digal Hassler.
(d) Toni Hassler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What didn't Franz bring out for lunch?

2. Who saw the three climb up the icefall?

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

4. What did Teo tell the waitress?

5. Why did Rudi's mother think that Rudi had gone with Franz?

(see the answer key)

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