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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Winter tell Rudi to do that scares him?
(a) Go down to Kurtal and convince his uncle to come up.
(b) That they have twenty-four hours to get up and down the mountain.
(c) That they are climbing the Citadel today.
(d) That Winter might not go on the hike at all due to his condition.

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

3. Why did Rudi believe that Winter would make it?
(a) He of them all deserved the most to make it.
(b) Winter had united two warring provincial towns.
(c) It had been Winter's dream to climb the Citadel before all of them.
(d) Winter was the epitome of a decent man.

4. How does Winter explain that they should approach the mountain as a group?
(a) As friends, and bury the hatchet of hatred between the two villages.
(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 equals, people that want to climb the Citadel together.

5. How did Rudi's uncle respond to him threading the needle?
(a) He told him he would never again use another porter.
(b) He held him tight.
(c) He was full of praise for him.
(d) He was aloof.

6. How was Rudi encouraged when he thought it was impossible to go any further?
(a) It had been clearly mapped out.
(b) Winter's wise words, and his support of Rudi's climbing.
(c) It had been done before by his father.
(d) Saxo's mean words and the fact that he thought Kurtalers wouldn't climb.

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

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

9. Who convinces Franz to climb the Citadel?
(a) Captain Winter.
(b) The other guides of Kurtal.
(c) Rudi.
(d) Teo.

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

11. Why didn't Rudi yodel when he had gotten to where he stood?
(a) It wouldn't have satisfied him.
(b) He wouldn't have honored his fathers memory,
(c) He didn't want Franz to hear him.
(d) It would have been blasphemy.

12. Why did Saxo become sullen?
(a) Winter trusted Franz over Saxo.
(b) Winter trusted Rudi over Saxo.
(c) Winter used Rudi's route instead of his.
(d) Rudi was leading instead of him.

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

14. Under how many feet of snow was Winter buried?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

15. How many men were to remain behind?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Frau Matt consider herself in the wrong?

2. What wasn't on the menu of the climbers?

3. What did Rudi see on the cliff above?

4. What did Rudi still have in his hands?

5. How long would Rudi give himself to go up?

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