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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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".

2. 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) The weather might not have been as good.
(c) They didn't look hard enough, or perhaps not have the skill.
(d) Stephenson was injured, and therefore they had to find a route to suit him.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why didn't Rudi continue down the hillside?
(a) He thought that his mother would be too worried.
(b) He kept slipping on the snow-covered rocks.
(c) He wanted to climb the peak in the morning.
(d) He knew Franz would be wroth if he didn't.

9. What did Rudi see on the cliff above?
(a) A mountain goat.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A chamois.
(d) A seagull.

10. What motivated Rudi to go on?
(a) He was his fathers' son.
(b) He knew that he must help Saxo.
(c) The fact that he had to.
(d) Franz was on his way to the top.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take Rudi to reach the top of the bergschrund?

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

3. When did Rudi finally allow himself to collapse?

4. Who does Franz blame for Rudi's disappearance?

5. How did Rudi's uncle respond to him threading the needle?

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