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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) Worried.
(b) Appalled.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Not surprised.

2. Why has Roy been living off meager rations?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) He does not want to eat.
(c) He cannot keep food down.
(d) He was not one of the chosen expeditionaries.

3. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?
(a) They do not trust the military men.
(b) They are unwilling to waste any more time waiting for the first plane to be fixed.
(c) The first plane cannot be repaired.
(d) They are afraid to ride on the first plane.

4. Back in Montevideo, how are the women feeling?
(a) Angry and hysterical.
(b) Depressed and hopeless.
(c) Content with what is being done.
(d) More impatient with the lack of progress.

5. What do the concerned and confused family members begin to do?
(a) Call each other.
(b) Arrive in Quito.
(c) Arrive in Montevideo.
(d) Arrive in Santiago.

6. What do the survivors do to get fresh air into the plane?
(a) They go out the back of the plane.
(b) They used a metal rod to puncture the snow outside.
(c) They use the oxygen tanks.
(d) They break off the roof.

7. What does Vizintin discover?
(a) The cockpit radio will no longer work.
(b) The cockpit radio will work.
(c) The plane may still be functional.
(d) A material in the tail's heating system that would make a great insulator from the cold should the radio not work and they were forced to resume the hike.

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

9. From what does Echavarren suffer?
(a) A cracked skull.
(b) An ugly gaping wound.
(c) A broken leg in many places.
(d) A punctured lung.

10. What does the Air Force do to the parents?
(a) They consider the petition.
(b) They refuse the parents' petition.
(c) They ignore the parents completely.
(d) They agree to the parents' petition.

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

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

13. What did the school systems in place at that time lack?
(a) Enough qualified teachers.
(b) Adequate text books.
(c) The religious qualities the parents sought.
(d) Order.

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

15. What is the lack of nutrients doing to the survivors' bodies?
(a) Making them delusional.
(b) Shrinking their waistlines and wrinkling their skin.
(c) Causing mass panic attacks.
(d) Killing them off one at a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Chilean military police called?

2. When does summer begin in the Andes?

3. When do the excited passengers begin to arrive at the Carrasco airport for their departure?

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

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

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