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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the family members see as they fly over the lake?
(a) People.
(b) Condors.
(c) Human footprints.
(d) The plane.
2. Why are the survivors looking for more bodies?
(a) They miss their friends.
(b) Their meat source is getting low.
(c) They want to find all of the bodies.
(d) They want to start burying the bodies.
3. With whom do the survivors talk and eat?
(a) The Andinists.
(b) The doctors.
(c) Their families.
(d) Each other.
4. What arrives on December 12th?
(a) The location of the Fairchild.
(b) Gifts for the survivors.
(c) A C-47 plane promised by the Uruguayan Air Force.
(d) Funding for the search for the survivors.
5. Is it easy to slip back into the lives the men had left behind?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) At times.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.
6. What are the parents doing as Canessa and Parrado hike through the Andes?
(a) They are heading home.
(b) They are busy searching.
(c) They are waiting to hear for news.
(d) They are meeting with the colonel.
7. Where do the hikers take shelter?
(a) In a ditch.
(b) In a barn.
(c) In an abandoned house.
(d) In an animal corral.
8. To where do the families turn their focus?
(a) An area near Santiago.
(b) The area around Quito.
(c) The area around the volcano and lake.
(d) The area around the top of Mount Helena.
9. What do the boys do when they come across a paradise of sorts?
(a) They hug.
(b) They celebrate.
(c) They look for other signs of life.
(d) They give thanks to God and rest.
10. What do the others do, while Canessa and Parrado are hiking?
(a) Try to stay alive.
(b) Sleep
(c) Eat.
(d) Complain.
11. How is Ponce de Leon's radio utilized?
(a) To make necessary arrangements for the parents and the planes.
(b) To find the hikers.
(c) To contact the president of Uruguay.
(d) To contact the survivors.
12. How are the feelings of the parents when the survivors' names are finally read?
(a) Bittersweet.
(b) Worried.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.
13. What is it difficult for the family members to accept?
(a) That the men's characters have changed.
(b) That so many died.
(c) That the men are depressed.
(d) That the men had survived by eating human flesh.
14. How are the carabineers prepared to retrieve survivors?
(a) By foot.
(b) By boat.
(c) By helicopter.
(d) By plane.
15. What does Paez do upon receiving this news?
(a) He gets on the plane.
(b) He runs to tell his friend, Rodriguez, who is already on the plane.
(c) He finds another flight to San Fernando.
(d) He runs outside and gets in a taxi.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dr. Canessa do when he hears the news?
2. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?
3. Why do the boys not kill the cow?
4. The families oscillated between what?
5. How far are Canessa and Parrado from the nearest town called San Fernando?
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