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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fate Made the Amendments, Four Shirts and an Overcoat, and Ascendancy of the Armchair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Heckmair and Vörg stay while waiting to start their climb?
(a) In a camp in the railroad passage.
(b) At a hotel.
(c) In a tent secluded from the others to remain unnoticed.
(d) In a tent at the bottom of the North Face.

2. Where was Harrer attending school, in 1938?
(a) University of Zurich.
(b) University of Graz.
(c) University of Wien.
(d) University of Cambridge.

3. Whose climb up the North Face was reclassified as a success between the original publication of the book and the addition of the appended section?
(a) Vaucher and Attinger.
(b) Corti and Longhi.
(c) Gonda and Wyss.
(d) Etter and Henkel.

4. Why did Fraissl and Brankowski turn back?
(a) Fraissl was injured by rocks.
(b) Brankowski injured himself in a fall.
(c) The weather was turning bad.
(d) Both were becoming ill.

5. What equipment was Harrer missing, that he realized he should have brought?
(a) A cold weather harness.
(b) Carabiners.
(c) Heavy crampons.
(d) Ice pitons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the climb down the mountain after the ascent?

2. How did Harrer survive the avalanche at the Spider?

3. What nationality were Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer?

4. Which two members of the party injured their hands on the ascent?

5. What did Kasparek do to make progress over the Second Ice Field easier?

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