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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On December 11th, what do the parents do?
(a) They learn that their sons are dead.
(b) They meet with the Uruguayan president.
(c) They wait for a plane to arrive to search for their children.
(d) They accompany military personnel aboard a plane in search of their children.

2. What does Dr. Canessa do when he hears the news?
(a) He calls his wife.
(b) He heads back to San Fernando.
(c) He heads to Santiago.
(d) He heads home.

3. What do the parents hear on Ponce de Leon's radio?
(a) A snippet of conversation about hikers being found.
(b) A snippet of conversation about a new search beginning.
(c) A snippet of conversation about a plane being found.
(d) A snippet of conversation about a cross being found.

4. With what are Armando and Enrique happy to supply the hikers?
(a) Food and shelter.
(b) Blankets and medicine.
(c) Stories and firewood.
(d) More food and pleasant conversation.

5. What does the record amount of snowfall in the Andes mountains do to the SAR's search?
(a) It ends it completely.
(b) It causes it to begin early.
(c) It pushes it back from February to March.
(d) It pushes it back from January to February.

Short Answer Questions

1. How close is it to Christmas?

2. While reviewing an aeronautical map of the area, how does Croiset Jr. feel?

3. What do the parents agree to do with this information?

4. The radio team heard news that the search would be resumed by the Uruguayan Air Force. What does this information bring?

5. What seems too good to be true?

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