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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Rudi know more of than any other guide in Kurtal?
(a) Hotel dishwashing.
(b) How to climb without being seen.
(c) The approaches to the Citadel.
(d) How to mountain climb.

2. What had Rudi's tormentor seen?
(a) Rudi achieving something.
(b) The praise Winter lavished on him.
(c) Rudi looking like a man.
(d) Rudi in all his glory setting out as a porter.

3. Where did Rudi place the staff?
(a) He used it as a walking stick.
(b) He carried it in his hands.
(c) Tied to his shoulders.
(d) Tied to his backpack.

4. Why was Rudi to be ashamed of the mistake he made?
(a) He jeopardized the employer.
(b) He made a stupid mistake.
(c) He didn't place value on his life.
(d) He wasn't thinking of others, but of himself.

5. Why didn't Saxo want Rudi coming along?
(a) He didn't want to be responsible for the boy.
(b) He thought he would slow them down.
(c) He saw Rudi as a child.
(d) He thought Winter would favor him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Teo get injured?

2. What did the other boys of the village call Rudi?

3. Why couldn't Winter and the group climb the rocks?

4. What was the favorite resort of the guides of Kurtal?

5. Why is Rudi employed as a dishwasher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Franz looking at Rudi as though he had never seen him before?

2. Why did Rudi have to keep to the shadows while playing hooky from work?

3. What was different between the upper and lower glaciers?

4. How is it obvious that Teo supports Rudi in climbing?

5. In what ways was Rudi's build different from that of most boys of the village?

6. How was the hut on the Citadel different from the other huts?

7. What did Rudi's uncle's face tell him, and how did this make Rudi feel?

8. Why was Rudi concerned about his boots?

9. What was Rudi's fear when he had heard the voice?

10. What information did Franz share with Ilse that was of particular interest to Rudi, and why was it so?

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