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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a combination of severe cold and high altitude cause?
(a) The destruction of the C-47.
(b) The C-47's delay.
(c) Sickness in the rescue workers.
(d) A cancellation of the search.

2. Who found himself covered in snow?
(a) Liliana Methol.
(b) Enrique Platero.
(c) Eduardo Strauch.
(d) Roy Harley.

3. When does summer begin in the Andes?
(a) December 15th.
(b) November 15th.
(c) June 15th.
(d) January 15th.

4. To what do the men return?
(a) Their hike out of the mountains.
(b) A feeling of home.
(c) The squalor they had been living in.
(d) Civilization.

5. What are the Chilean military police called?
(a) Policineros.
(b) Carabiners.
(c) Policia militar.
(d) Carabineros.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Roy been living off meager rations?

2. What does Vizintin discover?

3. Why are they forced to eat the bodies that had recently died and remained in the cabin?

4. What does the army commander, Colonel Morel, agree to do?

5. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?

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