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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Man, the Deciding Factor, Route Guide to the North Face, and Attempts and Successes on the North Face.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Rebitch and Vörg end the fourth day of their climb?
(a) At the bottom of the mountain.
(b) The railroad tunnel.
(c) The Swallow's Nest.
(d) The Mittellegi Hut.

2. Where did Guido Tonella interview Corti?
(a) At the base of the North Face.
(b) On the mountain.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In the hospital.

3. Which of the following pairs climbed the North Face in one day in July 1952, the seventh ascent?
(a) Pierre Julien and Maurice Coutin.
(b) Otto and Sepp Maag.
(c) Sepp Larch and Karl Winter.
(d) Heinrich Harrer and Erich Vanis.

4. 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.

5. How many parties left the Eiger without an attempt to climb the North Face in 1937, due to bad weather?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Edmund Geer and Wolfang Görter do while Derungs and Albrecht were climbing the North Face?

2. How many other climbers were in the party, along with the first woman to successfully climb the North Face?

3. What qualities does Harrer say are necessary to climb the White Spider?

4. In 1957, what traces of Nothdurft and Mayer did search parties find?

5. According to the Route Guide, how high is the Difficult Crack?

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