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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. Which glacier did Rudi go up?
(a) Dornel.
(b) Blue.
(c) Grey.
(d) Brolin.

2. What lie does Rudi tell Winter?
(a) His uncle wanted him to go in his stead.
(b) He had no fear of the ascent.
(c) He wasn't in trouble and his uncle was letting him be a porter.
(d) He was allowed to go and make the ascent of the Citadel.

3. What does Captain Winter say that Rudi deserves?
(a) A chance.
(b) A reward.
(c) Punishment.
(d) A porter's career.

4. In what kind of tree was Rudi's staff hidden?
(a) An lodge-pole pine.
(b) A blue spruce.
(c) A cedar.
(d) A fir.

5. Who was waiting in the hut when Rudi entered?
(a) His mother.
(b) Emil Saxo.
(c) Captain Winter.
(d) Franz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the proprietor of the moving shadow?

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

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

4. Why was Rudi struggling under his burdens?

5. What was the highest honor a man could obtain?

(see the answer key)

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