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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 does Harrer view change and the Eiger mountain?
(a) He sees the Eiger as resisting change and changing slowly.
(b) He sees the Eiger as ever changing.
(c) He sees the Eiger as always changing.
(d) He sees the Eiger as changing in short bursts.

2. When do Rebitsch and Vörg finally attempt their climb?
(a) In the second week of August.
(b) In the third week of August.
(c) In the first week of August.
(d) In the last week of July.

3. What did Fritz crave and lack, after climbing the Spider?
(a) Dry clothes.
(b) Fresh fruit.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Cigarettes.

4. What country was Harrer imprisoned in during World War II?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Italy.
(c) India.
(d) France.

5. When they arrived at the Eiger in 1936, what new route did Angerer and Rainer want to try on the North Face?
(a) A new route to the White Spider from the Third Ice Field.
(b) A new route to the First Ice Field.
(c) A new route to the Third Ice Field from the Second Ice Field.
(d) A new route to the Second Ice Field from the First Ice Field..

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Von Allmen make, as he waited for Toni Kurz and his group of climbers?

2. When was the first attempt to climb the North Face?

3. Where was Detassis injured?

4. What does the author say that true climbers want, in his criticism of media coverage of attempts to climb the North Face?

5. In 1950, where did North Face climbers Hamel and Seiler escape to after a blizzard?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Buhl, Jöchler, the Maags, and the French traveled up the Spider, in what arrangement did they bivouac?

2. What is the author's position on the psychology of seeking danger?

3. What seemed unexplainable about Primas and Gollackner's actions on their climb?

4. On his ascent up the North Face, what did Harrer remember seeing while he was climbing a peak as a child?

5. What did the author mean by "Come back safe, my friends"?

6. What did Rebitsch and Vörg do, after a harrowing climb on the mountain, when they learned that Gollackner had died on the mountain?

7. Describe the end of Sedlmayer and Mehringer's attempt to climb the North Face.

8. What are the hazards on the North Face when the ice is melted?

9. What unusual attempt to climb the North Face did Fuchs and Monney consider but then reject?

10. What did Kurz have to do to try to reach the rescuers?

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