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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1937: On the Eiger.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Rebitch and Vörg end their third day?
(a) The railroad tunnel.
(b) The Death Bivouac.
(c) The Mittellegi Hut.
(d) The Swallow's Nest.

2. When was the Northeast Face of the Eiger first climbed?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1942.

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

4. How did newspapers react to plans to climb the North Face in 1937?
(a) With enthusiastic sensationalism of the heroism of the climbers.
(b) With condemnation against the suicidal dangers.
(c) With both outcry against the danger and sensationalism.
(d) With indifference and certainty that attempts would fail.

5. When they arrived at the Eiger in 1936, what new route did Angerer and Rainer want to try on the North Face?
(a) A new route to the Third Ice Field from the Second Ice Field.
(b) A new route to the Second Ice Field from the First Ice Field..
(c) A new route to the First Ice Field.
(d) A new route to the White Spider from the Third Ice Field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What warning did the Swiss government issue to climbers?

2. How far did the first party to attempt to climb the North Face go on their second day?

3. Why does Harrer write about the North Face of the Eiger?

4. What did Toni Kurz's party say to Allmen when he called to them?

5. What did Von Allmen make, as he waited for Toni Kurz and his group of climbers?

(see the answer key)

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