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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do the family members need to adjust?
(a) The depression from which the young men suffer.
(b) The character changes in the young men.
(c) The newfound pessimism.
(d) The poor health of the young men.

2. What do the survivors believe this find to be?
(a) The geophysicists' cross.
(b) Their cross made of luggage.
(c) Their men.
(d) Their plane.

3. How do the men go to bed feeling?
(a) Worried about their friends still in the plane.
(b) Frustrated that they cannot leave now.
(c) Excited at the prospect of a helicopter's arrival in the morning.
(d) Nervous about seeing their families.

4. What do Harley and Nicolich do when they hear the news?
(a) They cannot decide what to do.
(b) They catch a flight to Santiago.
(c) They continue home.
(d) They reverse direction.

5. What do the family members see as they fly over the lake?
(a) Condors.
(b) People.
(c) The plane.
(d) Human footprints.

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

7. What is it difficult for the family members to accept?
(a) That the men had survived by eating human flesh.
(b) That the men are depressed.
(c) That the men's characters have changed.
(d) That so many died.

8. How are the feelings of the parents when the survivors' names are finally read?
(a) Excited.
(b) Bittersweet.
(c) Angry.
(d) Worried.

9. What seems too good to be true?
(a) The survivors being outside of the plane.
(b) The idea of finding the boys alive.
(c) The plane being in one piece.
(d) Animals being found near the crash site.

10. When the men politely answer the reporters' questions, what do they do?
(a) They omit nothing.
(b) They give all the details.
(c) They give no real answers.
(d) They omit a few details.

11. How many of the survivors had grown in their belief in God and wanted to share that message?
(a) None.
(b) The minority.
(c) A few.
(d) The majority.

12. Why do the boys not kill the cow?
(a) They do not want to eat beef.
(b) They are looking for help, not enemies.
(c) They do not know how to kill the cow.
(d) They are not hungry.

13. What does Dr. Canessa do when he hears the news?
(a) He calls his wife.
(b) He heads to Santiago.
(c) He heads back to San Fernando.
(d) He heads home.

14. On whom does Parrado focus?
(a) God.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His girlfriend.

15. To where do the families turn their focus?
(a) The area around the top of Mount Helena.
(b) The area around Quito.
(c) The area around the volcano and lake.
(d) An area near Santiago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the extreme altitude affect the boys?

2. The families oscillated between what?

3. Why has Dr. Canessa not yet returned to Montevideo?

4. How is the snow under their feet?

5. How far are Canessa and Parrado from the nearest town called San Fernando?

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