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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 keeps them updated and connected to the search.
(b) It encourages them.
(c) It gives them hope.
(d) It gives them a sense of peace.

2. Who comforts Marcelo?
(a) Fito (Adolfo) Strauch.
(b) Eduardo Strauch.
(c) Enrique Platero.
(d) Daniel Fernandez.

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

4. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?
(a) The injured.
(b) The strongest among the survivors.
(c) The couples.
(d) The weak and sick.

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

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

7. What animals noticed the survivors and dead bodies?
(a) The condors.
(b) The rats.
(c) The bears.
(d) The eagles.

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

9. When does the SAR send a few planes searching in a specified area?
(a) When the government pushes them to begin a search.
(b) When they receive financial support from the parents.
(c) When they find new evidence.
(d) When the parents threaten to sue.

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

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

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

13. 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 work.
(c) The plane may still be functional.
(d) The cockpit radio will no longer work.

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

15. As a group, how are the survivors becoming?
(a) Cheerful and hopeful.
(b) Positive and upbeat.
(c) Irritable and depressed.
(d) Uncertain but hopeful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paez Vilaro do to find the lost rugby players?

2. Who are the two major political parties?

3. Who is the only surviving woman?

4. On what does the search focus?

5. What do the men do in Santiago?

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