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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. What revolutionary group was born?

2. What does Vizintin discover?

3. What is Gustavo Nicolich's role during this tragedy?

4. What mountains does the refined search area surround?

5. When does summer begin in the Andes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What complicated the search?

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

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

5. What takes place on December 11th?

6. What are Canessa and Parrado trying to fix?

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

8. Who saved many from the avalanche?

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

10. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Twenty-nine of the forty-five passengers and crew did not survive.

Part 1) What is the main cause for most of their deaths?

Part 2) Could many of these deaths have been avoided, other than by not crashing? Explain.

Part 3) How might the dead feel about the ways their bodies had been used? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

The survivors were not evacuated immediately.

Part 1) Why were they not evacuated immediately?

Part 2) How might they have felt about this?

Part 3) How might the rescue crew have felt when approaching the survivors? Explain.

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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