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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do tensions rise?
(a) The survivors are tired of one another.
(b) The radio is not an easy task and various survivors have different views on rationing food and productivity.
(c) The survivors are all dying.
(d) The survivors do not want to go on.

2. What is Canessa's opinion about hiking?
(a) They should hike out of the mountains.
(b) He should hike alone back to the Fairchild.
(c) They should leave quickly.
(d) They should not risk their lives hiking again unless all their other options have been exhausted.

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

4. What mountains does the refined search area surround?
(a) The Tinguiririca, Sosneado and Palomo mountains.
(b) The Tingey, Sonora, and Panama mountains.
(c) The Tunguera, Salsa, and Palmera mountains.
(d) The Tanguray, Sosolita, and Palma mountains.

5. While reviewing an aeronautical map of the area, how does Croiset Jr. feel?
(a) The pilot had flown too close the mountains and crashed.
(b) Only a couple of men survive.
(c) There are no survivors.
(d) The copilot, not the pilot, had been flying the plane when one of its engines broke down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrives on December 12th?

2. What does the miner's story confirm?

3. To what do the men return?

4. What does Paez Vilaro do to find the lost rugby players?

5. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?

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