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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 problem did Heckmair have during the night?
(a) His rope sling began to slip.
(b) His hands began to freeze.
(c) His stomach was upset.
(d) Rocks slid down and hit his arm.

2. Why did Fraissl and Brankowski turn back?
(a) Brankowski injured himself in a fall.
(b) Fraissl was injured by rocks.
(c) Both were becoming ill.
(d) The weather was turning bad.

3. What year did Harrer escape from the prison camp?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1942.

4. 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 First Ice Field.
(b) A new route to the Second Ice Field from the First Ice Field..
(c) A new route to the White Spider from the Third Ice Field.
(d) A new route to the Third Ice Field from the Second Ice Field.

5. How many climbers were in the group including Hermann Buhl by the time they reached the summit in July 1952?
(a) Seven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Giuseppe Piravano and Bruno Detassis climb partially up the northeast face?

2. How many day's'provisions did the first climbers to attempt the North Face bring?

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

4. What does Maix say the truth about the North Face of the Eiger will provide?

5. How many nights did Pierre Julien and Maurice Coutin spend on the mountain during their 1952 climb?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Buhl, Jöchler, the Maags, and the French traveled up the Spider, in what arrangement did they bivouac?

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

3. Describe the first climb up the Eiger.

4. Where did rescuers start from to try to rescue Toni Kurz?

5. What did Rebitsch and Vörg do, after a harrowing climb on the mountain, when they learned that Gollackner had died on the mountain?

6. Describe the end of Sedlmayer and Mehringer's attempt to climb the North Face.

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

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

9. Was there rivalry between the parties attempting to climb the North Face in 1937?

10. What seemed unexplainable about Primas and Gollackner's actions on their climb?

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