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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What slowly replaced the local love of soccer?
(a) Football.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Rugby.
(d) Tennis.
2. From what does Echavarren suffer?
(a) A punctured lung.
(b) An ugly gaping wound.
(c) A broken leg in many places.
(d) A cracked skull.
3. How had snow entered the plane?
(a) An avalanche had pummeled the plane and entered through their makeshift barriers.
(b) It snows heavily and enters the gaping hole.
(c) The ceiling collapses.
(d) The men had brought it into the plane.
4. What do these animals mean to the survivors?
(a) They are food.
(b) They are a sign of disease.
(c) They are a sign of life and summer coming to the Andes.
(d) They are enemies.
5. Who spurred on the expedition team so they could make it back to the Fairchild?
(a) Turcatti.
(b) Parrado.
(c) Canessa.
(d) Vizintin.
6. How many more victims had been claimed by this snow?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.
7. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?
(a) They screamed for help.
(b) They had warm blankets.
(c) They had a pocket of air to breathe.
(d) They poked holes in the snow to breathe.
8. On what does the search focus?
(a) The path of the plane.
(b) The pilot's comments about seeing Curico.
(c) The Chilean border.
(d) The volcano of Tinguiririca.
9. What do the survivors do to get fresh air into the plane?
(a) They use the oxygen tanks.
(b) They go out the back of the plane.
(c) They break off the roof.
(d) They used a metal rod to puncture the snow outside.
10. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?
(a) Reform.
(b) Stability.
(c) Radical changes.
(d) A new leader.
11. Who found himself covered in snow?
(a) Roy Harley.
(b) Liliana Methol.
(c) Enrique Platero.
(d) Eduardo Strauch.
12. What does the record amount of snowfall in the Andes mountains do to the SAR's search?
(a) It causes it to begin early.
(b) It pushes it back from February to March.
(c) It ends it completely.
(d) It pushes it back from January to February.
13. What do the parents agree to do with this information?
(a) Ignore it.
(b) Bring it to the attention of the Uruguayan Air Force.
(c) Share it with another clairvoyant.
(d) Begin their own search.
14. What mountains does the refined search area surround?
(a) The Tunguera, Salsa, and Palmera mountains.
(b) The Tanguray, Sosolita, and Palma mountains.
(c) The Tinguiririca, Sosneado and Palomo mountains.
(d) The Tingey, Sonora, and Panama mountains.
15. How does Croiset feel about the passengers?
(a) He believes only the pilots survived.
(b) He believes there is one survivor.
(c) He doubts there are survivors.
(d) He believes there are suvivors.
Short Answer Questions
1. What revolutionary group was born?
2. What news was the most important that Croiset Jr. gives?
3. What did the school systems in place at that time lack?
4. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?
5. What is the lack of nutrients doing to the survivors' bodies?
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