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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What antagonistic action did observers note the climbers doing?
(a) The party in the lead would take out their pitons instead of leaving them for followers.
(b) The party in the lead would destroy the steps they made in the ice.
(c) The parties would push past each other in the climb instead of joining.
(d) The party in the lead would knock ice down the mountain.

2. What happened to Lugmayer during the climb?
(a) He lost his pack.
(b) He slipped and was caught by Ratay's rope.
(c) He was hit by a stone.
(d) He was injured in a watershed.

3. Why did Karl Blach take Huber's place?
(a) Huber was injured in an avalanche.
(b) Huber twisted his ankle.
(c) Huber was injured by a rock.
(d) Huber was feeling ill.

4. What day did Sefano Longhi and Claudio Corti begin to climb the North Face?
(a) July 23, 1957.
(b) July 3, 1957.
(c) July 13, 1957.
(d) August 3, 1957.

5. How many climbers successfully climbed the North Face in 1962?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Three.
(d) Forty-four.

6. Where did Guido Tonella interview Corti?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) On the mountain.
(d) At the base of the North Face.

7. How many successful ascents of the North Face were made in 1956?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

8. Was the filmed climb of Lothar Brandler, Jörg Lehne, and Sigfried Löw up the North Face successful?
(a) No, the weather conditions were too harsh.
(b) No, but the film made it seem successful.
(c) Yes, but the film was unusable.
(d) Yes, for two of the climbers.

9. What did Tonella think of Corti's description of what happened?
(a) He thought Corti was untruthful.
(b) He thought Corti was confused but mostly accurate.
(c) He thought Corti was truthful and accurate.
(d) He thought Corti was truthful, but left some things out.

10. How long was Paul Etter and Martin Epp's ascent up the North Face?
(a) 13 hours.
(b) Three days.
(c) Five days.
(d) A day and a half.

11. What did Corti say happened to Günther Nothdurft and Franz Mayer as they started out to climb the North Face?
(a) Mayer began to get ill.
(b) They lost their equipment.
(c) Mayer twisted his ankle.
(d) They had an argument and could not get along.

12. Where were Nothdurft and Mayer's bodies finally found?
(a) Lower down the east face of the mountain.
(b) At the top of the Spider.
(c) At the top of the mountain near the west face.
(d) Near the Ramp.

13. 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) Gonda and Wyss.
(b) Vaucher and Attinger.
(c) Etter and Henkel.
(d) Corti and Longhi.

14. What day did the innkeeper in Grindelwald say that Nothdurft and Mayer left for the climb?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Saturday.

15. Where do observers say that Corti and Longhi joined together with Nothdurft and Mayer?
(a) At the First Ice Field.
(b) Near the Spider.
(c) A the Swallow's Nest.
(d) At the Second Ice Field.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Longhi and Corti's climb up the North Face begin?

2. When did Helmut Salger and Horst Wels climb the North Face?

3. Who made the last successful ascent of the North Face in 1961

4. Where did Boulaz, Attinger, Vaucher, and Darbellay bivouac on their second night?

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

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