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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. How many climbers successfully climbed the North Face in 1962?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Forty-four.
2. What new technology did climbers on the ground think might be used to attempt to rescue Longhi?
(a) New steel cables.
(b) New rope swings.
(c) New rope ladders.
(d) New types of pitons.
3. How did Longhi and Corti's climb up the North Face begin?
(a) They got caught in a snowstorm.
(b) Longhi's rope broke, and they had to return.
(c) They forgot Corti's food and had to return.
(d) They got on the wrong route.
4. How did Helmuth Drachsler and Walter Gstrein climb past the Spider?
(a) Up a wall to the left.
(b) Up a wall to the right.
(c) They didn't.
(d) Up the center of the Spider.
5. When did Helmut Salger and Horst Wels climb the North Face?
(a) July, 1963.
(b) August, 1963.
(c) September, 1963.
(d) June, 1963.
Short Answer Questions
1. What makes the Silver Trench silver?
2. How far did Italian climber Walter Bonatti get in his solo attempt to climb the North Face in 1963?
3. Was Nothdurft's diary found?
4. How did Radovan KuchaÅ™ and Zdeno Zibrin climb up to the Exit Cracks?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were Nothdurft and Mayers' families reactions to the tragedy?
2. Describe the climb of the first women to attempt the North Face.
3. Describe the ascent of Blach and Wallenkamp up the North Face in 1952.
4. What is Harrer's opinion about Corti's story that the two other climbers went on to send back help, leaving Corti behind after he was injured?
5. What happened to Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer on the Ice Bulge?
6. What is Harrer's attitude toward Italians?
7. When did Mayr's climb seem to slow?
8. Describe the attempt to climb the North Face by Brian Nally and Barry Brewster in 1962.
9. Describe what was done to lower Alfred Hellepart down the mountain in a rescue attempt.
10. What contradictions are there in Corti's accounts of Nothdurft during the climb?
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