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

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

3. What must always come first in any situation?
(a) The maintenance of group responsibility.
(b) The injuries of a person in trouble.
(c) The help of another climber.
(d) The responsibility of a porter to the guide.

4. Who was the first person to speak once the impact of what Rudi had said sunk in?
(a) Saxo.
(b) Franz.
(c) Teo.
(d) Captain Winter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Rudi think he can make it through the eye of the needle?

3. Why did Frau Matt consider herself in the wrong?

4. What honor was bestowed upon Rudi?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways did the Englishman not look so good?

2. Why doesn't Saxo want to climb with Franz?

3. Why was Frau Matt not upset with Paul Tauglich?

4. Why didn't Rudi turn around when he knew he had to go back or be caught in darkness?

5. How did Winter's rationalization make sense to Franz?

6. What kinds of things had changed since Rudi had nodded off?

7. How does Captain Winter shame the two guides into working together?

8. How did Winter keep peace between the two rival guides?

9. Why was Rudi so tired?

10. What was the reason that Rudi couldn't come with Saxo and Winter to Broli?

(see the answer keys)

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