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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1957, what traces of Nothdurft and Mayer did search parties find?
(a) Indications that they had gotten lost on the way to the summit.
(b) None.
(c) Indications that they had made the summit but been unable to descend.
(d) Mayer's body but not Nothdurft.

2. Where did Boulaz, Attinger, Vaucher, and Darbellay bivouac on their second night?
(a) At the Swallow's Nest.
(b) Near the Ice Hose.
(c) Near the Ramp.
(d) At the Mittellegi Hut.

3. What site was Alfred Hellepart lowered down to for the rescue attempt?
(a) The Third Ice Field.
(b) The Ice Fluh.
(c) The precipice where Longhi was trapped.
(d) Corti's bivouac tent.

4. How far did Karl Blach initially say he would guide Jürgen Wallenkamp and Bernd Huber on their climb up the North Face?
(a) To the Ramp.
(b) To the Third Ice Field.
(c) To the Swallow's Nest.
(d) To the Difficult Crack.

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

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

7. How far did Italian climber Walter Bonatti get in his solo attempt to climb the North Face in 1963?
(a) The Third Ice Field.
(b) The First Ice Field.
(c) The Spider.
(d) The Second Ice Field.

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

9. How did Helmuth Drachsler and Walter Gstrein climb past the Spider?
(a) Up a wall to the right.
(b) They didn't.
(c) Up the center of the Spider.
(d) Up a wall to the left.

10. What did Bonatti say about why he turned back, ending his climb attempt?
(a) Bonatti said he would try again the following year.
(b) Bonatti said the climb wasn't worth risking his life.
(c) Bonatti said the weather wasn't right for the climb.
(d) Bonatti said the mountain had gotten the better of him.

11. What area of the mountain is the Silver Trench on?
(a) The Third Ice Field.
(b) The Ramp.
(c) The Spider.
(d) The Second Ice Field.

12. 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.

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

14. What does Harrer suggest happened on the climb?
(a) Corti and Longhi were trapped beind Nothdurft's party.
(b) Despite appearances, Nothdurft's party was climbing along with Corti and Longhi.
(c) The parties were unaware of each other for much of the climb.
(d) Nothdurft's party was trapped behind Corti and Longhi.

15. How did von Almen watch Mayr's ascent?
(a) From an airplane.
(b) Through a telescope.
(c) From the railway window.
(d) From the foot of the North Face with binoculars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Derungs and Albrecht use instead of a bivouac bag on their ascent up the North Face?

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

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?

4. What put the claims of two Swiss climbers who said they climbed the North Face in one day in doubt?

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

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