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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is discovered back at the Fairchild?
(a) Someone is hiding bodies.
(b) Someone had extra food on the plane but did not tell anyone.
(c) Someone is pilfering extra food.
(d) Someone has gone missing.

2. How had snow entered the plane?
(a) The men had brought it into the plane.
(b) An avalanche had pummeled the plane and entered through their makeshift barriers.
(c) The ceiling collapses.
(d) It snows heavily and enters the gaping hole.

3. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?
(a) The couples.
(b) The injured.
(c) The strongest among the survivors.
(d) The weak and sick.

4. On December 11th, what do the parents do?
(a) They learn that their sons are dead.
(b) They accompany military personnel aboard a plane in search of their children.
(c) They meet with the Uruguayan president.
(d) They wait for a plane to arrive to search for their children.

5. Back in Montevideo, how are the women feeling?
(a) More impatient with the lack of progress.
(b) Angry and hysterical.
(c) Depressed and hopeless.
(d) Content with what is being done.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marcelo feel responsible for their losses?

2. The excitement of the cross was akin to what for the survivors?

3. Why is there little snow on the top of the mountain?

4. What had geophysicists created?

5. Who entered first in the plane to sleep at night?

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