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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Although Winter wasn't in as good of health, what did Rudi see was untempered?
(a) His spirit.
(b) His ambition.
(c) His health.
(d) His strong will.

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

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

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

7. What approximate time was it when the group had moved past the Needle?
(a) Late evening.
(b) Mid-afternoon.
(c) Early evening.
(d) Early afternoon.

8. What warmed Rudi more than either tent or blanket?
(a) The group trusted Rudi.
(b) The fact that he had gotten lead.
(c) Rudi was actually on the mountain he'd dreamed of as a kid.
(d) His uncle's presence.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why did Frau Matt consider herself in the wrong?
(a) For worrying about Rudi when truly he is a capable climber.
(b) For pushing the townsfolk to lie to cover up Rudi's whereabouts.
(c) She had kept Rudi from pursuing his dreams all this time.
(d) She had reacted without thinking of her son's wishes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Saxo think that Josef and Stephenson couldn't find the way up the eastern face?

2. How did Rudi's mountaineer instinct come into play?

3. Who convinces Franz to climb the Citadel?

4. What was the first "key" to the mountain?

5. Under how many feet of snow was Winter buried?

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