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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vizintin discover?

2. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?

3. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?

4. From what does Enrique Platero suffer?

5. To buoy their spirits, what does Marcelo try to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the expedition?

2. How does the ninth day begin?

3. Why is the team traveling to Chile?

4. How do Marcelo Perez and Daniel Fernandez feel about their friends? What do they do to help their friends?

5. What takes place on December 11th?

6. Who saved many from the avalanche?

7. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

8. What information does Croiset Jr. give the parents?

9. Describe the crash.

10. Describe the plane they chartered and the course which it was to take.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The final trek is successful.

Part 1) Describe this trek. Why is it successful?

Part 2) What would have been the survivors' outcome if the trek had not been successful? How do you know this?

Part 3) Would the survivors have given up, if the trek had not been successful? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

On December 23 the survivors were all reunited with their families.

Part 1) Describe what this day must have been like.

Part 2) Why is this recovery at this time significant?

Part 3) How might the significance of this time of year affect their faith and belief in God?

Essay Topic 3

The survivors left behind when the first eight were evacuated talked and ate with the Andinists.

Part 1) What did they share with each other?

Part 2) Why did they share this information? What might have been the reaction of the Andinists to their stories? Why?

Part 3) How does this reaction lead to future events?

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