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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. What else do these women still believe?
(a) The Uruguayan government will find the plane.
(b) God will save their children.
(c) Their sons are alive.
(d) Their sons are dead.

2. How does Paez Vilar become known?
(a) As the man who has lost his mind.
(b) As an intelligent man.
(c) As the foolish man searching for his lost son.
(d) As the only man to go looking for his son.

3. What do the survivors do to get fresh air into the plane?
(a) They use the oxygen tanks.
(b) They break off the roof.
(c) They used a metal rod to puncture the snow outside.
(d) They go out the back of the plane.

4. Who is the only surviving woman?
(a) Analisia Marco.
(b) Raquel Welsh.
(c) Liliana Methol.
(d) Mariela Fernandez.

5. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?
(a) They had warm blankets.
(b) They poked holes in the snow to breathe.
(c) They screamed for help.
(d) They had a pocket of air to breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news was the most important that Croiset Jr. gives?

2. Why do the parents try to locate a peasant miner?

3. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?

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

5. Why do tensions rise?

Short Essay Questions

1. On Day Ten, what do the survivors decide?

2. What does Paez Vilaro do to search for the missing plane?

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

4. How do the survivors prepare to sleep?

5. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

6. What is taking place back at the Fairchild?

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

8. How does Ponce de Leon help the families of those lost in the Andes?

9. How does the ninth day begin?

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

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