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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do the parents meet on December 5th?

2. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?

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

4. What are the Chilean military police called?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Marcelo Perez and Daniel Fernandez feel about their friends? What do they do to help their friends?

4. How is the expedition?

5. What are the results of the avalanche?

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

7. What do the parents do on December 5th?

8. How do the survivors prepare to sleep?

9. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

10. What information does Croiset Jr. give the parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The families suffer several disappointments.

Part 1) Describe two of these disappointments. How are they affected by these disappointments?

Part 2) If this accident had occurred in the United States, would these disappointments still have occurred? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do these disappointments make the successful outcome more bittersweet?

Essay Topic 2

It was not easy for the survivors to slip back into their normal lives.

Part 1) Why might this be difficult? What were their various reactions to returning to normal life?

Part 2) Could one who experiences such trauma ever truly return to a previous lifestyle? Why or why not?

Part 3) Is there any way the survivors can benefit from this experience? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The Fairchild crashes in the Andes.

Part 1) Why does it crash in the Andes? How is this crash foreshadowed in this book?

Part 2) Could this type of accident occur today? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this crash change the passengers' lives forever?

Part 4) How would your life be changed, if you had been a survivor?

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