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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. What did Rudi still have in his hands?

2. What must always come first in any situation?

3. Why wouldn't Franz continue to the top of the mountain, despite Winter insisting he do so?

4. Where had Winter been hurt?

5. What resolve deepened in Rudi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Saxo treat pursuit of the summit originally? How did this change following his injury?

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

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

8. What is Rudi's second major contribution to this hike, and how was it different from his attempted contribution before?

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

10. Why was Rudi so tired?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the personification of the hazards of the mountain. How did this propagate the fear of the villagers? If to take this into consideration, are the villagers narrow minded? Explain your answer. What emotion finally got the rest of the Kurtalers up the mountain?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Frau Matt and Franz Lerner's control methods regarding Rudi. Speculate on the reasons they had failed. In which ways might they have succeeded, if they would have considered another method? Explain how their behavior could have encouraged Rudi even more.

Essay Topic 3

Rudi is devastated by his actions on the Wunderhorn. Discuss at least three different ways the boy could have chosen to handle the consequence of his action. How would each change him? How would those different decisions effect the outcome of the story? Explain.

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