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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How had snow entered the plane?
(a) An avalanche had pummeled the plane and entered through their makeshift barriers.
(b) The ceiling collapses.
(c) The men had brought it into the plane.
(d) It snows heavily and enters the gaping hole.

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

5. What news was the most important that Croiset Jr. gives?
(a) There are no survivors.
(b) Only two survived the crash.
(c) Everyone survived.
(d) There are survivors.

6. 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 January to February.
(c) It pushes it back from February to March.
(d) It causes it to begin early.

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. Who is the only surviving woman?
(a) Mariela Fernandez.
(b) Raquel Welsh.
(c) Analisia Marco.
(d) Liliana Methol.

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

13. From what does Enrique Platero suffer?
(a) Broken ribs.
(b) A broken leg in many places.
(c) A gaping stomach wound.
(d) A lung infection.

14. What do the survivors decrease in frequency?
(a) The amount of talking they do.
(b) Hysterical reactions.
(c) Depressing conversations.
(d) Their visits outside the plane.

15. The radio team heard news that the search would be resumed by the Uruguayan Air Force. What does this information bring?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Mixed emotions.
(d) Worry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the school systems in place at that time lack?

2. Why has Roy been living off meager rations?

3. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?

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

5. What slowly replaced the local love of soccer?

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