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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news was the most important that Croiset Jr. gives?
(a) Everyone survived.
(b) There are no survivors.
(c) There are survivors.
(d) Only two survived the crash.

2. How does Ponce de Leon help the families?
(a) He calls his friends in the United States.
(b) He uses his clairvoyant visions to find the plane.
(c) He uses his radio to shuttle information between the families and officials.
(d) He contacts the Air Force.

3. Who is among the last to be found?
(a) Numa Tarcatti and Eduardo Strauch.
(b) Liliana Methol. and Pancho Delgado.
(c) Roy Harley and Liliana Methol.
(d) Pedro Algorta and Javier Methol.

4. When do the four return to the Fairchild?
(a) When an avalanche buries the tail of the plane.
(b) When they decide to take the luggage back to the plane.
(c) When it becomes apparent that no amount of tinkering could produce a working two-way radio.
(d) When they become hungry.

5. What do these animals mean to the survivors?
(a) They are a sign of life and summer coming to the Andes.
(b) They are enemies.
(c) They are food.
(d) They are a sign of disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men do in Santiago?

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

3. From whom did Uruguay fight for its independence from its neighbors?

4. What did the school systems in place at that time lack?

5. How does Paez Vilar become known?

(see the answer key)

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