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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the extreme altitude affect the boys?
(a) It ends their hike.
(b) It forces them to turn around.
(c) It makes it easier to breathe.
(d) It wears on their bodies and exhausts them.

2. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?
(a) They are worried the news will not get to the plane in time.
(b) They want the news to travel faster for the sake of their friends still stranded on the Fairchild.
(c) Something will go wrong.
(d) Their friends will not make it through the night.

3. How close is it to Christmas?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One week.
(c) One month.
(d) One day.

4. What do the survivors discover when listening to the radio?
(a) Two of the Fairchild's passengers have walked out of the Andes.
(b) The search has begun again.
(c) A cross has been found.
(d) The search has, once again, been cancelled.

5. Why are this many people rescued first?
(a) To prepare the others for the flight later in the day.
(b) To care for them without incurring any undue danger.
(c) To anger the other survivors.
(d) To advertise this extraordinary rescue.

6. What do the family members see as they fly over the lake?
(a) Human footprints.
(b) People.
(c) Condors.
(d) The plane.

7. Who comes across the two hikers?
(a) Armando Serda and Enrique Gonzalez.
(b) Adolfo Sanchez and Eduardo Gomez.
(c) Amanda Smith and Eric Gold.
(d) Alan Soldo and Edmondo Guardez.

8. What are the parents doing as Canessa and Parrado hike through the Andes?
(a) They are busy searching.
(b) They are meeting with the colonel.
(c) They are heading home.
(d) They are waiting to hear for news.

9. What do the survivors believe this find to be?
(a) Their cross made of luggage.
(b) The geophysicists' cross.
(c) Their men.
(d) Their plane.

10. What is it difficult for the family members to accept?
(a) That the men had survived by eating human flesh.
(b) That the men's characters have changed.
(c) That the men are depressed.
(d) That so many died.

11. How many survivors are flown to San Fernando?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

12. What does a combination of severe cold and high altitude cause?
(a) The destruction of the C-47.
(b) The C-47's delay.
(c) Sickness in the rescue workers.
(d) A cancellation of the search.

13. The excitement of the cross was akin to what for the survivors?
(a) A car crash.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) An emotional roller coaster.

14. What seems too good to be true?
(a) The plane being in one piece.
(b) The idea of finding the boys alive.
(c) The survivors being outside of the plane.
(d) Animals being found near the crash site.

15. To where do the families turn their focus?
(a) The area around Quito.
(b) The area around the volcano and lake.
(c) The area around the top of Mount Helena.
(d) An area near Santiago.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day are the survivors reunited with each other and with their families?

2. During the night what does Diaz tell the survivors?

3. How many of the survivors had grown in their belief in God and wanted to share that message?

4. What does the next morning bring?

5. The families oscillated between what?

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