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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. How do the parents of the rugby players feel about the government calling off the search after so little effort?

2. Even if the plane is not buried in snow, why would it still be hard to see?

3. Why do the parents try to locate a peasant miner?

4. How does Ponce de Leon help the families?

5. On what does the search focus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the expedition?

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

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

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

6. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

7. What are Canessa and Parrado trying to fix?

8. Describe Day Ten.

9. Describe the crash.

10. How do the survivors prepare to sleep?

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

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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