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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?
(a) They are worried the news will not get to the plane in time.
(b) They want the news to travel faster for the sake of their friends still stranded on the Fairchild.
(c) Their friends will not make it through the night.
(d) Something will go wrong.

2. Back in Montevideo, how are the women feeling?
(a) Depressed and hopeless.
(b) Content with what is being done.
(c) Angry and hysterical.
(d) More impatient with the lack of progress.

3. The helicopters climbed how many feet before reaching the summit and moving down the opposite side?
(a) 13,500 feet.
(b) 11,500 feet.
(c) 10,500 feet.
(d) 12,500 feet.

4. How soon do Canessa and Parrado awake after a rest?
(a) Many hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Just a few hours.

5. What had geophysicists created?
(a) A cross as part of a geology experiment.
(b) A substation.
(c) An avalanche.
(d) An earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men go to bed feeling?

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

3. What does the Air Force do to the parents?

4. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?

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

(see the answer key)

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