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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the lack of nutrients doing to the survivors' bodies?
(a) Killing them off one at a time.
(b) Causing mass panic attacks.
(c) Making them delusional.
(d) Shrinking their waistlines and wrinkling their skin.

3. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?
(a) The Uruguayan Air Force.
(b) Their sons.
(c) Croiset's visions.
(d) Their husbands.

4. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?
(a) They do not trust the military men.
(b) They are afraid to ride on the first plane.
(c) The first plane cannot be repaired.
(d) They are unwilling to waste any more time waiting for the first plane to be fixed.

5. How many more victims had been claimed by this snow?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?

2. How does Paez Vilar become known?

3. Who entered first in the plane to sleep at night?

4. What do the men do in Santiago?

5. When does summer begin in the Andes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What complicated the search?

2. How do the parents feel about the called off search? How do they respond to this?

3. What was done after the air traffic control service lost contact with the Fairchild?

4. What do the family members do once they reach Santiago?

5. What do Madelon Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?

6. How does the ninth day begin?

7. How do the survivors feel about the search being resumed?

8. Describe the crash.

9. Who is Rafael Ponce de Leon?

10. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

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