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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Vizintin discover?
(a) 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.
(b) The cockpit radio will no longer work.
(c) The cockpit radio will work.
(d) The plane may still be functional.

4. How is the search expanded?
(a) To include the United States.
(b) To include the Chilean government.
(c) To include people on the ground.
(d) To include the surrounding countries.

5. What is the only way to improve visibility?
(a) To fly low.
(b) To travel by foot.
(c) To use binoculars.
(d) To wait until the weather improves.

6. To whom do the Strauch sisters pray fervently?
(a) The Virgin of Garabandal.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
(d) Buddha.

7. As what is Gerard Croiset well known?
(a) A rescue worker.
(b) A clairvoyant.
(c) A spy.
(d) A rugby player.

8. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?
(a) They had a pocket of air to breathe.
(b) They had warm blankets.
(c) They screamed for help.
(d) They poked holes in the snow to breathe.

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

10. Who is among the last to be found?
(a) Pedro Algorta and Javier Methol.
(b) Roy Harley and Liliana Methol.
(c) Numa Tarcatti and Eduardo Strauch.
(d) Liliana Methol. and Pancho Delgado.

11. The following day, after reviewing all available information, what do the commanders do?
(a) Continue on the same search.
(b) End the search.
(c) Change the focus of the search.
(d) Begin a search.

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

13. When does section three open?
(a) On the ninth day of the survivors' struggle.
(b) On the fifteenth day of the survivors' struggle.
(c) On the twentieth day of the survivors' struggle.
(d) On the fifth day of the survivors' struggle.

14. What mountains does the refined search area surround?
(a) The Tanguray, Sosolita, and Palma mountains.
(b) The Tinguiririca, Sosneado and Palomo mountains.
(c) The Tingey, Sonora, and Panama mountains.
(d) The Tunguera, Salsa, and Palmera mountains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What revolutionary group was born?

2. What is Canessa's opinion about hiking?

3. Who comforts Marcelo?

4. From whom did Uruguay fight for its independence from its neighbors?

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

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