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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the person been in the crevasse?

2. How many days did it rain?

3. How many people could stay in the Blausee Hut?

4. Where did Teo tell Franz that Rudi was?

5. What did the person in the crevasse lose when he fell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things do Franz and Rudi's mother say to try and show the boy the sense in a career in a hotel?

2. How was Rudi a "prisoner"?

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

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

5. Why did Teo lie to Franz and Gretchen?

6. Why does Teo refer to Rudi as the only real climber in all of Kurtal?

7. How were Franz and Captain Winter different as climbers?

8. Why does Rudi take such good care of his father's shirt?

9. What things made Rudi feel like a "man among men"?

10. What did Rudi vow to do every time Franz came back, and why didn't he do it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the significance of Winter's injury as it develops in the novel. What kind of effect does this have on the plot line? What would have been different had Winter not have gotten sick?

Essay Topic 2

How does the accident on the Wunderhorn change Rudi? Is this change for the positive or negative? Justify your answer. In what ways did this change Rudi's approach to climbing?

Essay Topic 3

Create a personality profile for Teo. Why do you think he was always helping Rudi? What kind of person was he and what kind of influence does he have on both the town and Rudi's family?

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