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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what are Armando and Enrique happy to supply the hikers?
(a) Food and shelter.
(b) Stories and firewood.
(c) More food and pleasant conversation.
(d) Blankets and medicine.

2. What does the army commander, Colonel Morel, agree to do?
(a) Contact other neighboring countries for support.
(b) End the search.
(c) Send a patrol to the area where the footprints were reported.
(d) Find the plane.

3. How does what Ponce de Leon offers help the families?
(a) It keeps them updated and connected to the search.
(b) It encourages them.
(c) It gives them hope.
(d) It gives them a sense of peace.

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

5. Who spurred on the expedition team so they could make it back to the Fairchild?
(a) Vizintin.
(b) Turcatti.
(c) Parrado.
(d) Canessa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?

2. On whom does the formal investigation of the Fairchild's crash place the blame?

3. The following day, after reviewing all available information, what do the commanders do?

4. The excitement of the cross was akin to what for the survivors?

5. When the survivors hear rumbling, what do they believe it is?

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