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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do tensions rise?
(a) The survivors are tired of one another.
(b) The survivors do not want to go on.
(c) The survivors are all dying.
(d) The radio is not an easy task and various survivors have different views on rationing food and productivity.

2. As a group, how are the survivors becoming?
(a) Positive and upbeat.
(b) Cheerful and hopeful.
(c) Irritable and depressed.
(d) Uncertain but hopeful.

3. What do the survivors do to get fresh air into the plane?
(a) They go out the back of the plane.
(b) They use the oxygen tanks.
(c) They break off the roof.
(d) They used a metal rod to puncture the snow outside.

4. When do the excited passengers begin to arrive at the Carrasco airport for their departure?
(a) October 12.
(b) September 12.
(c) November 12.
(d) December 12.

5. How was a democratic state created?
(a) The Democratic party president defeated the Republican party.
(b) The Blancos party president defeated the liberal party.
(c) The Colorado party president defeated the conservative party.
(d) The Republican party president defeated the liberal party.

6. Why has Roy been living off meager rations?
(a) He does not want to eat.
(b) He is not feeling well.
(c) He was not one of the chosen expeditionaries.
(d) He cannot keep food down.

7. Who comforts Marcelo?
(a) Fito (Adolfo) Strauch.
(b) Enrique Platero.
(c) Daniel Fernandez.
(d) Eduardo Strauch.

8. What does Vizintin discover?
(a) A material in the tail's heating system that would make a great insulator from the cold should the radio not work and they were forced to resume the hike.
(b) The plane may still be functional.
(c) The cockpit radio will work.
(d) The cockpit radio will no longer work.

9. What mountains does the refined search area surround?
(a) The Tingey, Sonora, and Panama mountains.
(b) The Tanguray, Sosolita, and Palma mountains.
(c) The Tinguiririca, Sosneado and Palomo mountains.
(d) The Tunguera, Salsa, and Palmera mountains.

10. When do the four return to the Fairchild?
(a) When it becomes apparent that no amount of tinkering could produce a working two-way radio.
(b) When they decide to take the luggage back to the plane.
(c) When they become hungry.
(d) When an avalanche buries the tail of the plane.

11. Why does Marcelo feel responsible for their losses?
(a) He crashed the plane.
(b) He told the pilots on which course to fly.
(c) He had encouraged the others to take the trip.
(d) He hired the plane and pilots.

12. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?
(a) The first plane cannot be repaired.
(b) They are afraid to ride on the first plane.
(c) They do not trust the military men.
(d) They are unwilling to waste any more time waiting for the first plane to be fixed.

13. What do the men do in Santiago?
(a) They wait for assistance from the military.
(b) They meet with a clairvoyant.
(c) They hire a search team.
(d) They split into teams.

14. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?
(a) Croiset's visions.
(b) Their husbands.
(c) Their sons.
(d) The Uruguayan Air Force.

15. When does section three open?
(a) On the ninth day of the survivors' struggle.
(b) On the fifth day of the survivors' struggle.
(c) On the twentieth day of the survivors' struggle.
(d) On the fifteenth day of the survivors' struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The radio team heard news that the search would be resumed by the Uruguayan Air Force. What does this information bring?

2. From what does Enrique Platero suffer?

3. What happens on December 11th?

4. Who took turns sleeping in the exposed area near the opening?

5. What did the school systems in place at that time lack?

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