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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. Did the pilots have experience flying over the Andes mountains?

2. What is Canessa's opinion about hiking?

3. When does the SAR send a few planes searching in a specified area?

4. What does the record amount of snowfall in the Andes mountains do to the SAR's search?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What complicated the search?

2. Describe the plane they chartered and the course which it was to take.

3. What takes place on December 11th?

4. Describe Day Ten.

5. Who is Rafael Ponce de Leon?

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

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

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

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

10. What is taking place back at the Fairchild?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eight survivors are flown away first.

Part 1) Why are only eight flown away first? How are they chosen?

Part 2) Should the eight have been chosen this way? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might this have affected the others? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The final trek is successful.

Part 1) Describe this trek. Why is it successful?

Part 2) What would have been the survivors' outcome if the trek had not been successful? How do you know this?

Part 3) Would the survivors have given up, if the trek had not been successful? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Both the SAR and family members search for the Fairchild and its passengers.

Part 1) Describe the various searches. How does the history of Uruguay affect these searches?

Part 2) What is unusual about some of the tactics used by the families? Would these sources of information be trusted in the United States? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the author convey the feelings of disappointment, joy, and suspense felt by these people?

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