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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the Austrians climbers Waschak and Forstenlechner stop climbing and wait at the Spider during their ascent?
(a) They ran out of supplies.
(b) Forstenlechner was injured.
(c) They didn't want to finish the ascent before the Swiss.
(d) Waschak felt ill.

3. 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 both outcry against the danger and sensationalism.
(c) With condemnation against the suicidal dangers.
(d) With indifference and certainty that attempts would fail.

4. What day did Harrer and Kasparek begin their 1938 climb of the North Face?
(a) July 7.
(b) July 28.
(c) July 14.
(d) July 21.

5. What happened to Kasparek at the Ramp?
(a) He slipped but was caught by Harrer's rope.
(b) He caught his hand in a rope.
(c) He was hit by a rock.
(d) He was washed down by a sudden tide of melting ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two occupations does Kurt Maix have?

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

3. How does Harrer view change and the Eiger mountain?

4. What do Rebitsch and Vörg find when they start up the mountain?

5. Why did Heckmair and Vörg have modern equipment for their climb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's position on the psychology of seeking danger?

2. What research did Harrer do for his book?

3. What blocked the descent from Buhl and Jöchler's bivouac spot below the Rote Fluh?

4. Describe the reaction to Harrer telling a doctor in Lhasa that he was among the first party to climb the North Face.

5. Describe the ascent of Buhl, Jöchler, the Maags, and the French through the Ramp.

6. What did the author mean by "Come back safe, my friends"?

7. Why did Heckmair and Vörg turn back from their climb on July 21?

8. On his ascent up the North Face, what did Harrer remember seeing while he was climbing a peak as a child?

9. What did the climbers do on their last night on the mountain before reaching the summit?

10. What unusual attempt to climb the North Face did Fuchs and Monney consider but then reject?

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