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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Winter continue up the mountain?
(a) His feet hurt.
(b) He was too tired.
(c) He had fallen and was in pain.
(d) He was struck with paroxysms of coughing.

2. For what was Frau Matt's prayer of thankfulness?
(a) Her son's courage.
(b) Her son's safety.
(c) Her brother's strong will.
(d) Her brother's mountaineering spirit.

3. What did Franz see that caused him to pause?
(a) Rudi's father's red sweater.
(b) Blood in the snow.
(c) Rudi's boots.
(d) Rudi's knapsack.

4. How does Winter explain that they should approach the mountain as a group?
(a) As friends, and bury the hatchet of hatred between the two villages.
(b) As human beings, not people from different towns or nations.
(c) As rivals, and compete for the prize that is the top of the mountain.
(d) As equals, people that want to climb the Citadel together.

5. Where did Rudi realize he was?
(a) Too far away from the ground.
(b) In the same cave in which his father and Sir Stephenson had died.
(c) Far away from home.
(d) On the Citadel's Fortress.

6. How long would Rudi give himself to go up?
(a) Another two hours.
(b) Another hour.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Forty-five minutes.

7. When did Rudi finally allow himself to collapse?
(a) When he had gotten Saxo to the bottom of the mountain.
(b) When he had gotten Saxo to the Fortress.
(c) When he had summoned Franz and Winter.
(d) When he had gotten Saxo to the tents.

8. What was the main reason that Saxo gave that he wouldn't climb with Franz?
(a) "A man of Broli is more skilled than a Kurtaler".
(b) "A Kurtaler is too good to climb with a man of Broli".
(c) " A man of Broli does not climb with a Kurtaler".
(d) "A man of Broli is better than a Kurtaler".

9. What warmed Rudi more than either tent or blanket?
(a) Rudi was actually on the mountain he'd dreamed of as a kid.
(b) His uncle's presence.
(c) The fact that he had gotten lead.
(d) The group trusted Rudi.

10. What had changed in Winter's appearance?
(a) His eyes had become brighter.
(b) His cheeks had regained their color.
(c) His eyes appeared less tired.
(d) His cheeks were less sunken.

11. Why didn't Rudi cry out?
(a) He felt that he would look wimpy to Saxo and Winter if he were to call out.
(b) He knew his strongest effort on the surface would be little more than a whisper.
(c) He didn't think the other two people in his party would be alive to hear him.
(d) He worried that his voice could trigger a fresh avalanche.

12. Why didn't Rudi yodel when he had gotten to where he stood?
(a) He wouldn't have honored his fathers memory,
(b) It would have been blasphemy.
(c) It wouldn't have satisfied him.
(d) He didn't want Franz to hear him.

13. How long did it take Rudi to reach the top of the bergschrund?
(a) Forty minutes.
(b) A half hour.
(c) An hour.
(d) Two hours.

14. How did Rudi know which route to follow?
(a) They had marked out their route before.
(b) He didn't follow their original route, but his own.
(c) He had memorized his footing.
(d) The marks of their boot nails were still visible.

15. How did Rudi's uncle respond to him threading the needle?
(a) He was aloof.
(b) He held him tight.
(c) He was full of praise for him.
(d) He told him he would never again use another porter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rudi keep near when he had approached the area in which the avalanche had occurred the day before?

2. What must always come first in any situation?

3. Who stands up for Rudi and prevents Franz from taking him down the mountain?

4. What did Rudi still have in his hands?

5. Why didn't Rudi continue down the hillside?

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