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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Croiset feel about the passengers?
(a) He believes only the pilots survived.
(b) He doubts there are survivors.
(c) He believes there are suvivors.
(d) He believes there is one survivor.

2. To buoy their spirits, what does Marcelo try to do?
(a) Remain upbeat.
(b) Encourage group prayer.
(c) Force them to be happy.
(d) Threaten them.

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

4. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Yes.

5. The following day, after reviewing all available information, what do the commanders do?
(a) End the search.
(b) Begin a search.
(c) Continue on the same search.
(d) Change the focus of the search.

6. Did the pilots have experience flying over the Andes mountains?
(a) No.
(b) Ferradas did.
(c) Some.
(d) Lagurara did.

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

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

9. What is the lack of nutrients doing to the survivors' bodies?
(a) Making them delusional.
(b) Killing them off one at a time.
(c) Shrinking their waistlines and wrinkling their skin.
(d) Causing mass panic attacks.

10. How do the parents of the rugby players feel about the government calling off the search after so little effort?
(a) Worried.
(b) Not surprised.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Relieved.

11. What does the record amount of snowfall in the Andes mountains do to the SAR's search?
(a) It pushes it back from February to March.
(b) It ends it completely.
(c) It causes it to begin early.
(d) It pushes it back from January to February.

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

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

14. To what do the men return?
(a) Civilization.
(b) A feeling of home.
(c) Their hike out of the mountains.
(d) The squalor they had been living in.

15. What is Canessa's opinion about hiking?
(a) They should hike out of the mountains.
(b) He should hike alone back to the Fairchild.
(c) They should not risk their lives hiking again unless all their other options have been exhausted.
(d) They should leave quickly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As what is Gerard Croiset well known?

3. As a group, how are the survivors becoming?

4. What animals noticed the survivors and dead bodies?

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

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