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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 Teo's last hike?
(a) Up the Wunderhorn.
(b) Up the Monte Rosa.
(c) Up the Citadel.
(d) Up the Rotalp.

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

3. What did Captain Winter remind Rudi of when he was climbing?
(a) A mountain lion.
(b) A cat.
(c) A man struggling with inanimate rock.
(d) A jousting warrior.

4. What did Teo tell the waitress?
(a) That Rudi was good for nothing in the kitchen.
(b) That Rudi had gone to see his ailing mother.
(c) That Rudi was out on an errand.
(d) That Rudi was a good boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Captain Winter going?

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

3. How many people could stay in the Blausee Hut?

4. Who was the first person to speak once the impact of what Rudi had said sunk in?

5. Who was it that brought Rudi's belongings further?

(see the answer key)

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