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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 did newspapers react to plans to climb the North Face in 1937?
(a) With condemnation against the suicidal dangers.
(b) With enthusiastic sensationalism of the heroism of the climbers.
(c) With indifference and certainty that attempts would fail.
(d) With both outcry against the danger and sensationalism.

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

3. What does Maix say the truth about the North Face of the Eiger will provide?
(a) A chronicle for history.
(b) An excuse for over-legislation.
(c) A nostalgic journey for those who have climbed.
(d) A warning to climbers.

4. How far did the first party to attempt to climb the North Face go on their second day?
(a) 600 feet up and across the First Ice Field.
(b) 900 feet up and across the First Ice Field.
(c) 300 feet up and across the First Ice Field.
(d) 1,200 feet up and across the First Ice Field.

5. In the summer of 1936, what caused Toni Kurz and his group of climbers to turn back?
(a) One climber was hit by a stone.
(b) One climber was injured in a fall.
(c) One climber's pack was lost.
(d) One climber began getting ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall was the icy gully that Buhl climbed the day after climbing the Spider?

2. What aspect of climbing does Harrer want to focus on in his book?

3. What happened to Kasparek at the Ramp?

4. Where did Harrer and Kasparek have breakfast, at the beginning of their ascent up the North Face?

5. In the third successful climb up the North Face, what nationality were Jermann's guides?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did rescuers start from to try to rescue Toni Kurz?

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

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

4. Describe Maix and Harrer's collaboration.

5. Why did Heckmair and Vörg turn back from their climb on July 21?

6. What happened to Bartolo Sandri and Mario Menti, who attempted to climb the North Face early in the summer of 1938?

7. What metaphor did the author use to describe the societal function of mountain climbing?

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

9. How were photos taken of the climbers traversing toward the Spider?

10. How did Fritz Kasparek and Harrer meet?

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