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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had changed in Rudi's lifetime?
(a) The village had become a tourist attraction.
(b) Rudi's father had died.
(c) Rudi had promised he would never climb the Citadel.
(d) The Citadel had been climbed.

2. What was the proprietor of the moving shadow?
(a) A tourist couple.
(b) A foraging dog.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A homeless person.

3. Why was Rudi struggling under his burdens?
(a) He was carrying the heaviest load.
(b) They were too heavy.
(c) It had gotten warmer.
(d) He was weak.

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

5. What did Teo say in regard to Rudi's climb with him?
(a) Not bad at all.
(b) Great.
(c) Really good.
(d) Horrible.

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

7. Who does Teo first raise his beer to?
(a) Rudi.
(b) Emil Saxo.
(c) Franz.
(d) Captain Winter.

8. What point of the Citadel was the highest point reached before?
(a) The Keep.
(b) The Peak.
(c) The Battlement.
(d) The Fortress.

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

10. What do the guides believe will destroy the Englishman and the guide from Broli?
(a) The demons of the Citadel.
(b) The ghosts of Rudi's father and his Herr.
(c) The treacherous climb.
(d) Their audacity.

11. Who did Rudi suspect was the shadowy figure?
(a) His mother.
(b) Captain Winter.
(c) Josef Matt.
(d) Franz.

12. What didn't Rudi take from the cupboard?
(a) Ice ax.
(b) Crampons.
(c) Hiking boots.
(d) The knapsack.

13. How does Franz comfort Frau Matt?
(a) He tells her Rudi has only gone to the glaciers.
(b) He explains that Winter is the best climber he has ever seen.
(c) He says that Rudi is a good climber and can do it.
(d) He explains that he will bring Rudi back.

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

15. Why was Rudi to be ashamed of the mistake he made?
(a) He wasn't thinking of others, but of himself.
(b) He jeopardized the employer.
(c) He didn't place value on his life.
(d) He made a stupid mistake.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Rudi know more of than any other guide in Kurtal?

3. Who saw the three climb up the icefall?

4. What did Rudi strike a second match for?

5. Why didn't Rudi get his staff?

(see the answer keys)

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