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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the Silver Trench silver?
(a) Glassy gray rocks rising up through the snow.
(b) Glittering light on a rushing stream.
(c) A vein of silver in the mountain.
(d) Light gleaming off the ice.

2. 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) Gonda and Wyss.
(b) Etter and Henkel.
(c) Vaucher and Attinger.
(d) Corti and Longhi.

3. To what does Harrer attribute the fact that Longhi was unable to climb up the rope after he fell?
(a) His wrist was strained and swollen.
(b) It would have been impossible.
(c) He didn't know the proper technique.
(d) He was disoriented by the fall.

4. What did Hellepart give Corti when he first contacted him?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Bread.

5. How did Radovan KuchaÅ™ and Zdeno Zibrin climb up to the Exit Cracks?
(a) Up the rocks, bypassing the Spider.
(b) Through a traverse along the edge of the spider.
(c) Up the Spider in avalanche conditions.
(d) Up the Spider, amidst rock and water falls.

6. Who made the last successful ascent of the North Face in 1961
(a) Gerhard Mayer and Karl Frehsner.
(b) Hilti von Allmen and Ueli Hürlimann.
(c) Erich Streng and Robert Troier.
(d) Georg Huber and Helmut Wagner.

7. How did Longhi and Corti's climb up the North Face begin?
(a) They forgot Corti's food and had to return.
(b) They got caught in a snowstorm.
(c) Longhi's rope broke, and they had to return.
(d) They got on the wrong route.

8. What did Derungs and Albrecht use instead of a bivouac bag on their ascent up the North Face?
(a) A tablecloth.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A wool blanket.
(d) An overcoat.

9. How many bivouacs did Spanish climbers Albert Rabada and Ernesto Navarra make before reaching the Spider?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

10. In 1957, what traces of Nothdurft and Mayer did search parties find?
(a) Mayer's body but not Nothdurft.
(b) Indications that they had gotten lost on the way to the summit.
(c) Indications that they had made the summit but been unable to descend.
(d) None.

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

12. How far did Karl Blach initially say he would guide Jürgen Wallenkamp and Bernd Huber on their climb up the North Face?
(a) To the Ramp.
(b) To the Difficult Crack.
(c) To the Swallow's Nest.
(d) To the Third Ice Field.

13. Where did Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer bivouac their first night on the mountain in 1952?
(a) At the Ramp.
(b) At the Swallow's Nest.
(c) Above the Second Ice Field.
(d) At the Mittellegi Hut.

14. How did Reiss describe the thunderstorm that was going on when he reached the summit?
(a) As a tribulation.
(b) As a welcome respite.
(c) As the last straw.
(d) As good conditions.

15. Who made the first successful solo attempt to climb the North Face?
(a) Arnold Heinen.
(b) Erich Friedli, Jr.
(c) Michel Darbellay.
(d) Paul Etter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harrer recommend to climbers for protection from rocks?

2. What profession were Adolf Derungs and Lukas Albrecht, who made the 16th successful ascent up the North Face?

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

4. Was the filmed climb of Lothar Brandler, Jörg Lehne, and Sigfried Löw up the North Face successful?

5. How many parties successfully climbed the North Face in 1952?

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