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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Darkness and Dawn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Winter and the group climb the rocks?
(a) There was no acceptable purchase for feet and hands.
(b) They were too steep.
(c) The snow looked more inviting.
(d) The rocks looked loose and like they might give way.

2. What was the main reason that Saxo gave that he wouldn't climb with Franz?
(a) "A Kurtaler is too good to climb with a man of Broli".
(b) "A man of Broli is better than a Kurtaler".
(c) "A man of Broli is more skilled than a Kurtaler".
(d) " A man of Broli does not climb with a Kurtaler".

3. What did the other boys of the village call Rudi?
(a) "Angel face".
(b) Nothing to his face.
(c) "Baby face".
(d) "Boy wonder".

4. Why does Saxo think that so many people have come to the hut?
(a) To keep them from climbing the mountain.
(b) To create a situation in which no one goes up the mountain.
(c) To hurt them so they can't go up the mountain.
(d) To plot against them.

5. How does Winter explain that they should approach the mountain as a group?
(a) As rivals, and compete for the prize that is the top of the mountain.
(b) As human beings, not people from different towns or nations.
(c) As equals, people that want to climb the Citadel together.
(d) As friends, and bury the hatchet of hatred between the two villages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rudi believe that Winter would make it?

2. What part of Rudi's body got stuck?

3. Who did Rudi suspect was the shadowy figure?

4. What time were the guides of Kurtal set to mobilize?

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

(see the answer key)

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