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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 does the record amount of snowfall in the Andes mountains do to the SAR's search?
(a) It pushes it back from January to February.
(b) It causes it to begin early.
(c) It pushes it back from February to March.
(d) It ends it completely.

2. Why are Parrado, Turcatti, and Canessa selected for the next expedition?
(a) They are the most mentally and physically fit.
(b) They are the most excited about returning home.
(c) They have training as Andinists.
(d) They are the weakest.

3. The following day, after reviewing all available information, what do the commanders do?
(a) Change the focus of the search.
(b) Begin a search.
(c) Continue on the same search.
(d) End the search.

4. What revolutionary group was born?
(a) The Tupamaros.
(b) The Tuiricas.
(c) The Tuperwares.
(d) The Ticonderogas.

5. While reviewing an aeronautical map of the area, how does Croiset Jr. feel?
(a) Only a couple of men survive.
(b) The pilot had flown too close the mountains and crashed.
(c) The copilot, not the pilot, had been flying the plane when one of its engines broke down.
(d) There are no survivors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?

2. What does the Air Force do to the parents?

3. When does summer begin in the Andes?

4. What is the only way to improve visibility?

5. How was a democratic state created?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the ninth day begin?

2. Why is the team traveling to Chile?

3. What are the results of the avalanche?

4. Describe Day Ten.

5. What are Canessa and Parrado trying to fix?

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

7. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

8. How is the expedition?

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

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

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