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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. Why is Fito reluctant to use one of the bodies?

2. What time does the helicopter arrive to pick up the last survivors?

3. Why does Paez Vilaro think he gets detained by the international police?

4. How does the extreme altitude affect the boys?

5. When the men politely answer the reporters' questions, what do they do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What false hope do the survivors experience?

2. What do the survivors do when the first eight are flown away?

3. How do the men cross the river?

4. What do the thirteen survivors do as this section begins?

5. What do the helicopters do when they arrive?

6. What does the minor's story confirm? What is done with this information?

7. What searches take place the next morning?

8. How do Canessa and Parrado feel when they awake?

9. Why is Paez Vilaro lagging behind?

10. When do Canessa and Parrado first encounter another human being?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The survivors endured great hardships.

Part 1) Describe two of these hardships.

Part 2) How were the survivors affected by these hardships? Why?

Part 3) How were the survivors changed permanently by these hardships? Are you surprised by any of these changes? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The families suffer several disappointments.

Part 1) Describe two of these disappointments. How are they affected by these disappointments?

Part 2) If this accident had occurred in the United States, would these disappointments still have occurred? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do these disappointments make the successful outcome more bittersweet?

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