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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does what Ponce de Leon offers help the families?
(a) It gives them a sense of peace.
(b) It encourages them.
(c) It keeps them updated and connected to the search.
(d) It gives them hope.

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

3. Did the pilots have experience flying over the Andes mountains?
(a) Lagurara did.
(b) No.
(c) Some.
(d) Ferradas did.

4. When do the four return to the Fairchild?
(a) When they decide to take the luggage back to the plane.
(b) When an avalanche buries the tail of the plane.
(c) When they become hungry.
(d) When it becomes apparent that no amount of tinkering could produce a working two-way radio.

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

6. From whom did Uruguay fight for its independence from its neighbors?
(a) Argentina and Brazil.
(b) Chile and Paraguay.
(c) Brazil and Paraguay.
(d) Argentina and Chile.

7. What is Gustavo Nicolich's role during this tragedy?
(a) He is the organizer.
(b) He is team captain.
(c) He is the complainer.
(d) He is the pilot.

8. Why do some of the other parents pledge their help?
(a) Because they cannot think of what else to do.
(b) Because they would feel guilty doing otherwise.
(c) Because they still hold out hope that their sons are alive.
(d) Because they wanted to know what had happened to the plane.

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

10. Why do the parents try to locate a peasant miner?
(a) He is also a clairvoyant.
(b) It is rumored that he saw the crash.
(c) He has seen debris from the crash.
(d) He will lead them through the mountains to search for their children.

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

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

13. Why does Marcelo feel responsible for their losses?
(a) He hired the plane and pilots.
(b) He crashed the plane.
(c) He told the pilots on which course to fly.
(d) He had encouraged the others to take the trip.

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

15. To buoy their spirits, what does Marcelo try to do?
(a) Encourage group prayer.
(b) Force them to be happy.
(c) Threaten them.
(d) Remain upbeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Croiset feel about the passengers?

2. Why are they forced to eat the bodies that had recently died and remained in the cabin?

3. What slowly replaced the local love of soccer?

4. When does the SAR send a few planes searching in a specified area?

5. What else do these women still believe?

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