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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the carabineers prepared to retrieve survivors?
(a) By helicopter.
(b) By foot.
(c) By boat.
(d) By plane.

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

3. When does the SAR send a few planes searching in a specified area?
(a) When they find new evidence.
(b) When the parents threaten to sue.
(c) When the government pushes them to begin a search.
(d) When they receive financial support from the parents.

4. How do the men go to bed feeling?
(a) Nervous about seeing their families.
(b) Worried about their friends still in the plane.
(c) Frustrated that they cannot leave now.
(d) Excited at the prospect of a helicopter's arrival in the morning.

5. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?
(a) Their friends will not make it through the night.
(b) They want the news to travel faster for the sake of their friends still stranded on the Fairchild.
(c) Something will go wrong.
(d) They are worried the news will not get to the plane in time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had geophysicists created?

3. What do the survivors believe this find to be?

4. What do the parents agree to do with this information?

5. With what are Armando and Enrique happy to supply the hikers?

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