View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the parents of the rugby players feel about the government calling off the search after so little effort?
(a) Appalled.
(b) Worried.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Not surprised.

2. As a group, how are the survivors becoming?
(a) Positive and upbeat.
(b) Uncertain but hopeful.
(c) Cheerful and hopeful.
(d) Irritable and depressed.

3. What does Paez Vilaro do to find the lost rugby players?
(a) He talks to a water diviner.
(b) He mounts his own search.
(c) He contacts a clairvoyant.
(d) He calls his friends in the United States for help.

4. What is discovered back at the Fairchild?
(a) Someone is hiding bodies.
(b) Someone had extra food on the plane but did not tell anyone.
(c) Someone has gone missing.
(d) Someone is pilfering extra food.

5. When do the excited passengers begin to arrive at the Carrasco airport for their departure?
(a) October 12.
(b) December 12.
(c) November 12.
(d) September 12.

6. When does the SAR send a few planes searching in a specified area?
(a) When they find new evidence.
(b) When the parents threaten to sue.
(c) When the government pushes them to begin a search.
(d) When they receive financial support from the parents.

7. Who spurred on the expedition team so they could make it back to the Fairchild?
(a) Vizintin.
(b) Canessa.
(c) Turcatti.
(d) Parrado.

8. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

9. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?
(a) Radical changes.
(b) Reform.
(c) A new leader.
(d) Stability.

10. On what does the search focus?
(a) The pilot's comments about seeing Curico.
(b) The volcano of Tinguiririca.
(c) The path of the plane.
(d) The Chilean border.

11. How does Ponce de Leon help the families?
(a) He contacts the Air Force.
(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 calls his friends in the United States.

12. What revolutionary group was born?
(a) The Tuperwares.
(b) The Tuiricas.
(c) The Ticonderogas.
(d) The Tupamaros.

13. Was the information from Ponce de Leon accurate?
(a) No.
(b) Very little.
(c) Yes.
(d) Some.

14. What slowly replaced the local love of soccer?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Rugby.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

15. What do the parents agree to do with this information?
(a) Ignore it.
(b) Share it with another clairvoyant.
(c) Bring it to the attention of the Uruguayan Air Force.
(d) Begin their own search.

Short Answer Questions

1. Canessa and Parrado remained at the Fairchild and attempted to do what?

2. On December 11th, what do the parents do?

3. Why does Marcelo feel responsible for their losses?

4. What is Canessa's opinion about hiking?

5. What does Vizintin discover?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 562 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample