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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What revolutionary group was born?
(a) The Tuiricas.
(b) The Ticonderogas.
(c) The Tuperwares.
(d) The Tupamaros.
2. Who is among the last to be found?
(a) Numa Tarcatti and Eduardo Strauch.
(b) Pedro Algorta and Javier Methol.
(c) Liliana Methol. and Pancho Delgado.
(d) Roy Harley and Liliana Methol.
3. Why has Roy been living off meager rations?
(a) He does not want to eat.
(b) He was not one of the chosen expeditionaries.
(c) He cannot keep food down.
(d) He is not feeling well.
4. While reviewing an aeronautical map of the area, how does Croiset Jr. feel?
(a) The pilot had flown too close the mountains and crashed.
(b) There are no survivors.
(c) The copilot, not the pilot, had been flying the plane when one of its engines broke down.
(d) Only a couple of men survive.
5. To whom do the Strauch sisters pray fervently?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
(d) The Virgin of Garabandal.
6. What do the parents agree to do with this information?
(a) Share it with another clairvoyant.
(b) Begin their own search.
(c) Ignore it.
(d) Bring it to the attention of the Uruguayan Air Force.
7. Who spurred on the expedition team so they could make it back to the Fairchild?
(a) Parrado.
(b) Canessa.
(c) Vizintin.
(d) Turcatti.
8. Back in Montevideo, how are the women feeling?
(a) Content with what is being done.
(b) Depressed and hopeless.
(c) Angry and hysterical.
(d) More impatient with the lack of progress.
9. What is Gustavo Nicolich's role during this tragedy?
(a) He is the pilot.
(b) He is the complainer.
(c) He is team captain.
(d) He is the organizer.
10. What is discovered back at the Fairchild?
(a) Someone had extra food on the plane but did not tell anyone.
(b) Someone is pilfering extra food.
(c) Someone has gone missing.
(d) Someone is hiding bodies.
11. What had the men rigged?
(a) A transistor radio.
(b) The cockpit radio.
(c) A telephone.
(d) A walkie-talkie.
12. Why do tensions rise?
(a) The survivors are tired of one another.
(b) The survivors are all dying.
(c) The survivors do not want to go on.
(d) The radio is not an easy task and various survivors have different views on rationing food and productivity.
13. 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.
14. When do the excited passengers begin to arrive at the Carrasco airport for their departure?
(a) November 12.
(b) September 12.
(c) December 12.
(d) October 12.
15. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?
(a) The injured.
(b) The strongest among the survivors.
(c) The weak and sick.
(d) The couples.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do the parents try to locate a peasant miner?
2. When do the four return to the Fairchild?
3. What is the only way to improve visibility?
4. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?
5. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?
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