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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 are the survivors looking for more bodies?

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

3. On what day are the survivors reunited with each other and with their families?

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

5. Whose body is placed on reserve?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the arrival of the helicopters.

2. What takes place on December 23rd?

3. What do the survivors discover on day seventy-one?

4. What was happening with the search while Parrado and Canessa hiked?

5. What happens after the last survivors are rescued?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The travelers on the Fairchild are from Uruguay.

Part 1) Describe Uruguay's history. How does this history affect these travelers?

Part 2) How does this country play a role in the outcome of this tragedy?

Part 3) How might the United States' response have been, compared to the Uruguayans? Explain.

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