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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 newspapers do with the news of this cross?
(a) They thought it could possibly be related to the Fairchild survivors.
(b) They thought is could possibly be related to some local geophysicists.
(c) They ignored the news.
(d) They did not believe it could be related to the Fairchild survivors.

2. What do the survivors decrease in frequency?
(a) Depressing conversations.
(b) The amount of talking they do.
(c) Their visits outside the plane.
(d) Hysterical reactions.

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

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

5. What does Canessa do continuously during the hike?
(a) He thinks about his father.
(b) He prays to God.
(c) He thinks about his mother.
(d) He prays to his patron saint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Parrado, Turcatti, and Canessa selected for the next expedition?

2. Did the pilots have experience flying over the Andes mountains?

3. What does the next morning bring?

4. Why is there little snow on the top of the mountain?

5. Who is contacted when the air traffic control service lost contact with the Fairchild?

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