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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 many carabineers arrived and asked for directions to the plane?

2. Is Dr. Canessa fortunate?

3. How are the feelings of the parents when the survivors' names are finally read?

4. How do the men go to bed feeling?

5. Why do the boys not kill the cow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?

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

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

5. What searches take place the next morning?

6. How is Wednesday, December 20th important?

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

8. What takes place on December 12th?

9. What do the helicopters do when they arrive?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Religion and faith are important to many of the survivors.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How does their faith change throughout the events in this book?

Part 3) How might their faith be today? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

The survivors unanimously decided to eat the bodies of the dead.

Part 1) Why do they make this decision? What role does their faith play in this decision?

Part 2) How does this cannibalism affect outsiders? Why?

Part 3) How do you fell about this cannibalism? Why? Would you have done the same thing, if you were in this situation? 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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