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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it difficult for the family members to accept?
(a) That so many died.
(b) That the men's characters have changed.
(c) That the men had survived by eating human flesh.
(d) That the men are depressed.

2. When the survivors hear rumbling, what do they believe it is?
(a) Another avalanche.
(b) A rescue helicopter.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A bear.

3. What signs of life do the hikers come across?
(a) A magazine, cart, saddle, and soap.
(b) An empty soup can, cow dung, and a horseshoe.
(c) A fence, blanket, boot, and fork.
(d) A cup, plate, rope, and shoe.

4. What do the parents hear on Ponce de Leon's radio?
(a) A snippet of conversation about a new search beginning.
(b) A snippet of conversation about hikers being found.
(c) A snippet of conversation about a cross being found.
(d) A snippet of conversation about a plane being found.

5. How many carabineers arrived and asked for directions to the plane?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

6. To what do the family members need to adjust?
(a) The poor health of the young men.
(b) The depression from which the young men suffer.
(c) The character changes in the young men.
(d) The newfound pessimism.

7. How many of the survivors had grown in their belief in God and wanted to share that message?
(a) The minority.
(b) A few.
(c) The majority.
(d) None.

8. How is Ponce de Leon's radio utilized?
(a) To make necessary arrangements for the parents and the planes.
(b) To contact the president of Uruguay.
(c) To find the hikers.
(d) To contact the survivors.

9. Is it easy to slip back into the lives the men had left behind?
(a) At times.
(b) Yes.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) No.

10. Why do the boys not kill the cow?
(a) They do not want to eat beef.
(b) They are not hungry.
(c) They are looking for help, not enemies.
(d) They do not know how to kill the cow.

11. What do the men begin to do?
(a) Plan another trek out of the Andes.
(b) Prepare to leave the plane.
(c) Celebrate their salvation.
(d) Complain that they will not be found.

12. What does the transistor radio say has been found?
(a) A cross in the snow.
(b) A plane.
(c) Hikers.
(d) A geological site.

13. The sleepless night brought a morning full of hope. What do the men know without a doubt?
(a) They will not be rescued for a few days.
(b) They will be rescued next week.
(c) They will be rescued during the night.
(d) They would be rescued that day.

14. How is the snow under their feet?
(a) Mushy.
(b) Slippery.
(c) Hard.
(d) Sharp.

15. What news is given to Dr. Canessa?
(a) His son is one of the survivors.
(b) He will not see his son for several weeks.
(c) There is no news about his son.
(d) His son has not survived.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Paez Vilaro think he gets detained by the international police?

2. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?

3. What do the newspapers do with the news of this cross?

4. The helicopters climbed how many feet before reaching the summit and moving down the opposite side?

5. Where do the hikers take shelter?

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