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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 the only way to improve visibility?

2. What do the survivors decrease in frequency?

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

4. From what does Echavarren suffer?

5. How many more victims had been claimed by this snow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who saved many from the avalanche?

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

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

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

6. Describe Day Ten.

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

8. Describe the crash.

9. What complicated the search?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The survivors left behind when the first eight were evacuated talked and ate with the Andinists.

Part 1) What did they share with each other?

Part 2) Why did they share this information? What might have been the reaction of the Andinists to their stories? Why?

Part 3) How does this reaction lead to future events?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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