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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 others do, while Canessa and Parrado are hiking?
(a) Complain.
(b) Sleep
(c) Try to stay alive.
(d) Eat.

2. Who is contacted when the air traffic control service lost contact with the Fairchild?
(a) The SAR.
(b) The RAS.
(c) The ARS.
(d) The SRA.

3. When the survivors hear rumbling, what do they believe it is?
(a) Another avalanche.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A rescue helicopter.
(d) A bear.

4. Why do some of the other parents pledge their help?
(a) Because they wanted to know what had happened to the plane.
(b) Because they cannot think of what else to do.
(c) Because they still hold out hope that their sons are alive.
(d) Because they would feel guilty doing otherwise.

5. Why are the survivors looking for more bodies?
(a) They want to find all of the bodies.
(b) They want to start burying the bodies.
(c) Their meat source is getting low.
(d) They miss their friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. The helicopters climbed how many feet before reaching the summit and moving down the opposite side?

2. Why are the pilots of the broken-down C-47 also disappointed?

3. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?

4. What do the survivors believe this find to be?

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

(see the answer key)

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