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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had the men rigged?
(a) A transistor radio.
(b) A walkie-talkie.
(c) A telephone.
(d) The cockpit radio.

3. Who takes the lead on the expedition?
(a) Suarez.
(b) Parrado.
(c) Canessa.
(d) Strauch.

4. What happens on December 11th?
(a) The plane crashes in the Andes.
(b) The propellers stop turning and the pilot performs an emergency landing.
(c) The plane does not take off due to engine problems.
(d) The plane searches but does not find the men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who entered first in the plane to sleep at night?

2. What does Vizintin discover?

3. What slowly replaced the local love of soccer?

4. Who comforts Marcelo?

5. What revolutionary group was born?

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