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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 signs of life do the hikers come across?

2. Why has Dr. Canessa not yet returned to Montevideo?

3. How do the survivors go about their daily chores?

4. Why do the boys not kill the cow?

5. What does Dr. Canessa do when he hears the news?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the two men proceed after Vizintin goes back to the Fairchild?

2. How is the cross found in the snow discouraging to the parents?

3. What do the parents learn from Ponce de Leon's radio?

4. What is the summer sun doing? How is this good and bad?

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

6. How do the parents feel about the reading of the survivors' names?

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

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

9. What takes place on December 23rd?

10. Why is Paez Vilaro lagging behind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The survivors were not evacuated immediately.

Part 1) Why were they not evacuated immediately?

Part 2) How might they have felt about this?

Part 3) How might the rescue crew have felt when approaching the survivors? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Eight survivors are flown away first.

Part 1) Why are only eight flown away first? How are they chosen?

Part 2) Should the eight have been chosen this way? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might this have affected the others? Why?

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