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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 do these animals mean to the survivors?

2. Back in Montevideo, how are the women feeling?

3. How does what Ponce de Leon offers help the families?

4. What is the largest city in Uruguay?

5. Why are Parrado, Turcatti, and Canessa selected for the next expedition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

2. Who saved many from the avalanche?

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

4. How does the ninth day begin?

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

6. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

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

8. What takes place on December 11th?

9. Why is the team traveling to Chile?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On December 23 the survivors were all reunited with their families.

Part 1) Describe what this day must have been like.

Part 2) Why is this recovery at this time significant?

Part 3) How might the significance of this time of year affect their faith and belief in God?

Essay Topic 2

The survivors attempt several courses of action to stay alive.

Part 1) What are two of these courses of action? How do they decide which courses of action to take?

Part 2) What do these courses of action reveal about the survivors?

Part 3) What do these attempts at survival reveal about mankind?

Essay Topic 3

The families do not give up hope.

Part 1) How do they show that they do not give up hope?

Part 2) What keeps them from giving up hope?

Part 3) Would you be as strong and hopeful? Why or why not?

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