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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the survivors believe this find to be?
(a) The geophysicists' cross.
(b) Their men.
(c) Their plane.
(d) Their cross made of luggage.

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

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

4. What do the survivors hear intermittently?
(a) Screams.
(b) Birds.
(c) Sounds of planes.
(d) Rumbling.

5. What had geophysicists created?
(a) A substation.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) A cross as part of a geology experiment.
(d) An earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the helicopters carry?

2. Why are the survivors looking for more bodies?

3. How do the parents of the rugby players feel about the government calling off the search after so little effort?

4. When the men politely answer the reporters' questions, what do they do?

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

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