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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. What two occupations does Kurt Maix have?
(a) Journalist and naturalist.
(b) Journalist and mountaineer.
(c) Mountaineer and biographer.
(d) Natualist and biographer.

2. What phrase do newspapers use to describe the rush of climbers heading for the North Face?
(a) White Spider Craze.
(b) Ice Field Flurry.
(c) Eiger Storm.
(d) North Face Fever.

3. Who was the first mountaineer to climb the Eiger?
(a) Andres Monteau.
(b) Charles Barrington.
(c) John Shaeffer.
(d) Brendon Messering.

4. How many parties left the Eiger without an attempt to climb the North Face in 1937, due to bad weather?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

5. On what day of the climb did Toni Kurz and his party turn back?
(a) The fifth day.
(b) The third day.
(c) The fourth day.
(d) The second day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did newspapers react to plans to climb the North Face in 1937?

2. When Franz Primas and Bertl Gollackner climbed the Lauper Route, what did Gollackner accidentally leave behind?

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

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

5. What did the press call the North Face?

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