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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tragedy of 1957.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the two climbers who arrived at the North Face early in the summer of 1936?
(a) The weather remained bad, and they gave up waiting.
(b) They climbed as far as the Second Ice Field and back down.
(c) They became ill and gave up the attempt.
(d) One of them died on a climb on another mountain.

2. In 1950, where did North Face climbers Hamel and Seiler escape to after a blizzard?
(a) The railway tunnel.
(b) The Swallow's Nest.
(c) The Kleine Scheidegg.
(d) The Mittellegi Hut.

3. Where did Rebitch and Vörg end the fourth day of their climb?
(a) At the bottom of the mountain.
(b) The Swallow's Nest.
(c) The Mittellegi Hut.
(d) The railroad tunnel.

4. When Franz Primas and Bertl Gollackner climbed the Lauper Route, what did Gollackner accidentally leave behind?
(a) His water.
(b) His food.
(c) His tent.
(d) His pitons.

5. What do Rebitsch and Vörg find when they start up the mountain?
(a) A new route to the Second Ice Field.
(b) An impassable crevice.
(c) An ice-coated, slippery passage.
(d) Hinterstoisser's body.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nights did Corti, Longhi, Nothdurft and Mayer bivouac on the North Face?

2. What day did Sefano Longhi and Claudio Corti begin to climb the North Face?

3. On Buhl's 1952 climb, what blocked his progress at the Ramp?

4. Where did Rebitch and Vörg reach on their second day?

5. Where did Guido Tonella interview Corti?

(see the answer key)

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