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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Rudi's mountaineer instinct come into play?
(a) He put his arm over his face giving himself breathing room.
(b) He swam through the snow.
(c) He anchored himself and refused to let the avalanche take him.
(d) He maintained his hold on the rope that was lashed to the other two climbers.

2. Why was Rudi's heart pounding?
(a) He had reached the Fortress.
(b) He had seen the cave in which his father had died.
(c) He had been exerting himself heavily.
(d) He had confronted the demons that were on the mountain.

3. What did Rudi compare Saxo to in his injury?
(a) A fallen giant.
(b) A wounded beast.
(c) A greenhorn.
(d) A caged animal.

4. How many times did Rudi turn and look back?
(a) Twice.
(b) He didn't look back.
(c) Three times.
(d) Once.

5. About how many feet were above Rudi?
(a) Almost three thousand.
(b) Almost two thousand.
(c) Almost one thousand.
(d) Almost twenty two hundred.

6. What resolve deepened in Rudi?
(a) To make his father proud.
(b) To never slip.
(c) To be loyal to the Herr.
(d) Not to fail them or betray their trust.

7. Why wouldn't Franz continue to the top of the mountain, despite Winter insisting he do so?
(a) Winter insisted he stay.
(b) Rudi had gotten hurt climbing through the Needle.
(c) A guide of Kurtal does not leave his Herr on the mountain.
(d) Rudi wasn't fit to travel.

8. Where did Rudi keep near when he had approached the area in which the avalanche had occurred the day before?
(a) The right hand side.
(b) The rock wall.
(c) The left hand side.
(d) The center or the slide area.

9. What did Rudi see on the cliff above?
(a) A chamois.
(b) A mountain goat.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A seagull.

10. Why did Saxo say he was climbing the Citadel?
(a) For his wife.
(b) For Winter.
(c) For the glory of himself and Broli.
(d) For all the climbers that had perished before him.

11. Where did Rudi realize he was?
(a) Far away from home.
(b) On the Citadel's Fortress.
(c) Too far away from the ground.
(d) In the same cave in which his father and Sir Stephenson had died.

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

13. For what was Frau Matt's prayer of thankfulness?
(a) Her son's safety.
(b) Her brother's mountaineering spirit.
(c) Her son's courage.
(d) Her brother's strong will.

14. What had disappeared with Rudi's fear?
(a) The need to run away.
(b) The feeling of being alone.
(c) The terror.
(d) The specter.

15. Why didn't Rudi continue down the hillside?
(a) He wanted to climb the peak in the morning.
(b) He knew Franz would be wroth if he didn't.
(c) He thought that his mother would be too worried.
(d) He kept slipping on the snow-covered rocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had changed about the night?

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

3. Why does Saxo think that so many people have come to the hut?

4. Where did the guides think that Rudi was?

5. Who does Franz blame for Rudi's disappearance?

(see the answer keys)

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