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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What honor was bestowed upon Rudi?
(a) He was allowed to decide the route.
(b) The privilege of discussing the route with them.
(c) The lead position.
(d) He was allowed one full tent on his own.

2. What must always come first in any situation?
(a) The maintenance of group responsibility.
(b) The help of another climber.
(c) The injuries of a person in trouble.
(d) The responsibility of a porter to the guide.

3. What had changed about the night?
(a) It had gotten colder.
(b) It had gotten warmer.
(c) It had gotten clearer.
(d) The stars had come out.

4. Where had Winter been hurt?
(a) His arm.
(b) His hand.
(c) His leg.
(d) His head.

5. When did Rudi finally allow himself to collapse?
(a) When he had gotten Saxo to the Fortress.
(b) When he had gotten Saxo to the tents.
(c) When he had gotten Saxo to the bottom of the mountain.
(d) When he had summoned Franz and Winter.

6. Why couldn't Winter continue up the mountain?
(a) He was too tired.
(b) His feet hurt.
(c) He was struck with paroxysms of coughing.
(d) He had fallen and was in pain.

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

8. What made Rudi not want to go back to Kurtal?
(a) All of these.
(b) His uncles' anger and his mother's tears.
(c) The mocking laughter of Klaus Weisselhoft.
(d) The dirty dishes at the Beau Site Hotel.

9. Why did Saxo think that Josef and Stephenson couldn't find the way up the eastern face?
(a) The Kurtal guide wasn't as skilled as a guide from Broli.
(b) Stephenson was injured, and therefore they had to find a route to suit him.
(c) They didn't look hard enough, or perhaps not have the skill.
(d) The weather might not have been as good.

10. What had awakened Rudi?
(a) A sound.
(b) A scream.
(c) The dream.
(d) The wailing wind.

11. Why are Saxo and Winter headed back to Broli?
(a) To finish writing his will.
(b) To get a tent.
(c) To get supplies.
(d) To make a call to his wife.

12. What wasn't on the menu of the climbers?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Dried meat.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Bread.

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

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

15. Who was the first person to speak once the impact of what Rudi had said sunk in?
(a) Captain Winter.
(b) Franz.
(c) Teo.
(d) Saxo.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many feet were above Rudi?

2. Why wouldn't Franz continue to the top of the mountain, despite Winter insisting he do so?

3. How was Rudi encouraged when he thought it was impossible to go any further?

4. Why was Rudi's heart pounding?

5. Why was not going on worst for Rudi?

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