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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dismayed Rudi?
(a) Time and space had lost meaning.
(b) He could only move at such a pace and not beyond it.
(c) He knew the others would be up and knew what he was doing.
(d) He thought Saxo had already reached the summit.

2. Why hadn't Rudi turned around when he knew he needed to?
(a) He didn't want to tell Winter why he hadn't gone down to Kurtal.
(b) He didn't want to explain to Klaus why he'd turned around.
(c) The magic of the mountain drew him on.
(d) He wasn't looking forward to his uncles' wrath.

3. What made Franz angry?
(a) The thought of Saxo.
(b) That Rudi had abandoned Winter and Franz.
(c) That Saxo had abandoned his Herr.
(d) The fact that Rudi had continued on without letting him know.

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

5. What made Rudi happy?
(a) There was a straight forward route past the Fortress and beyond.
(b) He had proved his father was right.
(c) All of these.
(d) He was higher than any person had ever been before on the Citadel.

6. Why was Rudi frustrated and shamed when he came to the crack?
(a) He had dangled.
(b) He was hauled up like a bundle of firewood.
(c) He had slipped and fallen.
(d) It was the first time in which he had needed assistance from the others.

7. Why was not going on worst for Rudi?
(a) He had insisted he go.
(b) His uncle was preventing him from going up.
(c) Winter would have wanted him to do it.
(d) He was both able and willing to do so.

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. What thought caused the specter to leave?
(a) That it wanted to cause him no harm.
(b) That ghosts aren't real.
(c) That he was Josef Matt's son.
(d) That the only ghost would be that of his father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rudi realize he was?

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

3. What had changed in Winter's appearance?

4. What warmed Rudi more than either tent or blanket?

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

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