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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the difference in climbing the snow slope and climbing the ice?
(a) The snow slope was more treacherous.
(b) The snow slope was colder.
(c) The snow slope was less dangerous.
(d) There was no sound on the snow slope.

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

3. What spanned the crevasse at the center?
(a) A snow bridge.
(b) An ice bridge.
(c) A timber bridge.
(d) A rope bridge.

4. What sound did Rudi make?
(a) A creak of a plank underfoot.
(b) He dropped a boot.
(c) A hissing of striking a match.
(d) A click of the lock being engaged.

5. Why didn't Rudi's father leave the Citadel?
(a) Sir Stephenson begged him not to go.
(b) He couldn't find his way.
(c) He was hurt.
(d) He wouldn't leave his client.

6. Who is the "madman" that Franz is referring to?
(a) Teo.
(b) Captain Winter.
(c) Rudi.
(d) Emil Saxo.

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

8. What does Teo say abut Rudi?
(a) All of these.
(b) That he is the son of his father.
(c) That he is the only true mountain man in Kurtal.
(d) That he knows where he ought to be.

9. What time were the guides of Kurtal set to mobilize?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

10. How much did Rudi's pack weigh?
(a) Fifteen pounds.
(b) Twenty-five pounds.
(c) Twenty pounds.
(d) Thirty pounds.

11. Where was the voice coming from?
(a) One of the mountain slopes.
(b) Behind him from the path.
(c) Inside a crevasse.
(d) Behind him from the valley.

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

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

14. What often happens in the high mountains?
(a) Dawn brings warmth.
(b) Dawn doesn't bring warmth but increased cold.
(c) The ice becomes more treacherous at dawn.
(d) The ice starts to melt at dawn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the barmaid?

2. Who was waiting in the hut when Rudi entered?

3. Who would substitute for Rudi at the hotel?

4. What reward does Winter suggest that Rudi should get from them?

5. Why did Rudi venture out in another direction?

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