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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Rudi's mother cry and cling to him?
(a) She wouldn't display that kind of emotion.
(b) It is what she had done with his father, and he had never come home.
(c) She wanted to treat him like a man, not as a boy.
(d) She didn't want to embarrass him.

2. How did Teo get injured?
(a) He sacrificed himself for the good of the employer.
(b) He made a mistake like Rudi.
(c) He jeopardized his life.
(d) He fell in the darkness.

3. What is the only nice thing that was said of Emil Saxo?
(a) He is smart and canny.
(b) He is good to his Herr's and will take good care of Winter.
(c) He was the best of the guides in Broli.
(d) He is honorable and decent.

4. What had happened when they had reached the snow slope?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) Winter slipped and fell.
(c) Saxo slipped and fell.
(d) Rudi slipped and fell.

5. Where is Captain Winter going?
(a) To Germany.
(b) To Greece.
(c) To Georgia.
(d) To Geneva.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the other boys of the village call Rudi?

2. What were tourists called?

3. Why doesn't Franz think that Rudi can be a porter?

4. How much did Rudi's pack weigh?

5. What was the only sound?

(see the answer key)

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