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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. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?

2. What do the survivors decrease in frequency?

3. What is done with the luggage?

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

5. The following day, after reviewing all available information, what do the commanders do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What takes place on December 11th?

4. What complicated the search?

5. What does Paez Vilaro do to search for the missing plane?

6. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

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

8. What are the results of the avalanche?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Bittersweet feelings sweep over the parents when the survivors' name are read.

Part 1) Why are the feelings bittersweet?

Part 2) What are your thoughts about the reactions of the family members? Are you at all surprised? Why or why not?

Part 3) How would you feel and react as the family member of one of the passengers who had not survived? How would you interact with the other family members and survivors? Why would you act this way?

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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