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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 is done with the luggage?

2. What do these animals mean to the survivors?

3. In 1971, what does the Old Christians rugby team decide to do?

4. How was a democratic state created?

5. Was the information from Ponce de Leon accurate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Day Ten.

3. What are Canessa and Parrado trying to fix?

4. How does the ninth day begin?

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

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

7. Describe the crash.

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

9. What complicated the search?

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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