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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, The Heights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only sound?
(a) A cricket chirping.
(b) A frog.
(c) His boots on the gravel.
(d) His boots on the hard-packed earth.

2. Who is the last person that Teo raises his glass to?
(a) Rudi.
(b) Frau Matt.
(c) Franz Lerner.
(d) Emil Saxo.

3. What happened to Rudi?
(a) His eyes closed without them meaning to.
(b) He triggered an avalanche.
(c) He hurt himself.
(d) He slipped and fell.

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

5. What dismayed Rudi?
(a) He thought Saxo had already reached the summit.
(b) He could only move at such a pace and not beyond it.
(c) He knew the others would be up and knew what he was doing.
(d) Time and space had lost meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had there never been in Kurtal?

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

3. What was Rudi's mother known for?

4. What didn't Rudi take from the cupboard?

5. How far beneath the Hut was the town of Kurtal?

(see the answer key)

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