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

2. Was Nothdurft's diary found?
(a) Yes, but the entries were eroded.
(b) No, only a few unhelpful pages.
(c) Yes, but it contained no entries.
(d) No, no trace of it was found.

3. What does Harrer recommend to climbers for protection from rocks?
(a) Sheets of protective metal.
(b) Protective climbing suits.
(c) Plastic crash helmets.
(d) Quick wits.

4. 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?
(a) Etter and Henkel.
(b) Vaucher and Attinger.
(c) Gonda and Wyss.
(d) Corti and Longhi.

5. What cliff on the North Face did Karl Reiss attempt to climb?
(a) A cliff from the Spider to the summit.
(b) A cliff from the First Ice Field to the Second Ice Field.
(c) A cliff from the Second Ice Field to the Third Ice Field.
(d) A cliff from the Third Ice Field to the Spider.

Short Answer Questions

1. What site was Alfred Hellepart lowered down to for the rescue attempt?

2. When did Helmut Salger and Horst Wels climb the North Face?

3. What caused Boulaz, Attinger, Vaucher, and Darbellay to turn back?

4. What did Hellepart give Corti when he first contacted him?

5. How many nights did Corti, Longhi, Nothdurft and Mayer bivouac on the North Face?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contradictions are there in Corti's accounts of Nothdurft during the climb?

2. What is Harrer's attitude toward Italians?

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

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

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

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

7. At the end of the chapter "The International Rescue Team," what does Harrer suggest might happen in the future regarding Nothdurft and Mayer?

8. What information does Harrer offer in the later appended chapters about his treatment of Corti's story and the facts about Nothdurft's death?

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

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

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