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

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

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

4. How many nights did Corti, Longhi, Nothdurft and Mayer bivouac on the North Face?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the final section of the book added?

2. On July 31, 1962, how many parties reached the summit of the Eiger from the North Face?

3. What did Tonella think of Corti's description of what happened?

4. What day did the innkeeper in Grindelwald say that Nothdurft and Mayer left for the climb?

5. When was the fifteenth ascent of the North Face of the Eiger made by two Austrian students?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the weather like during Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer's first night on the mountain in 1952?

2. How were Albert Rabada and Ernesto Navarra's bodies recovered?

3. What happened to Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer on the Ice Bulge?

4. What does Harrer say about Corti's knowledge of the North Face of the Eiger?

5. Why does Harrer call the climb by Radovan KuchaÅ™ and Zdeno Zibrin cautious?

6. 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?

7. What happened when Derungs and Albrecht threw their extra equipment over the edge of the mountain after their last bivouac?

8. What happened in the attempts to climb the North Face in 1953?

9. What made the Difficult Crack and the Hinterstoisser Traverse easier to climb for Mayr than for early climbers?

10. What is Harrer's attitude toward Italians?

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