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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the first "key" to the mountain?
(a) The shoulder.
(b) The Fortress.
(c) The crossing of the snow bridge.
(d) The peak.

5. 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 equals, people that want to climb the Citadel together.
(d) As human beings, not people from different towns or nations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What had unnerved Rudi?
(a) The hight at which he stood.
(b) The fact that he was higher than anyone had been since his father had stood there.
(c) The stillness of the mountain and all that surrounded him.
(d) He saw his father's ghost.

14. What was the main reason that Saxo gave that he wouldn't climb with Franz?
(a) "A man of Broli is more skilled than a Kurtaler".
(b) " A man of Broli does not climb with a Kurtaler".
(c) "A man of Broli is better than a Kurtaler".
(d) "A Kurtaler is too good to climb with a man of Broli".

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Rudi compare Saxo to in his injury?

3. About how many feet were above Rudi?

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

5. Where did Rudi realize he was?

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