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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the parents agree to do with this information?
(a) Begin their own search.
(b) Bring it to the attention of the Uruguayan Air Force.
(c) Ignore it.
(d) Share it with another clairvoyant.

2. Canessa and Parrado remained at the Fairchild and attempted to do what?
(a) Make the cockpit radio functional.
(b) Move the cockpit toward the rest of the plane.
(c) Make the plane functional.
(d) Fix the transistor radio.

3. Was the information from Ponce de Leon accurate?
(a) Some.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Very little.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news was the most important that Croiset Jr. gives?

2. What does this man say to the family members?

3. Why are Parrado, Turcatti, and Canessa selected for the next expedition?

4. Who is among the last to be found?

5. In what do Madelon (Vilero) Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What complicated the search?

2. Describe Day Ten.

3. On Day Ten, what do the survivors decide?

4. When does the SAR send out a few planes in a specified area?

5. What do Madelon Rodriguez and Estela Perez continue to believe?

6. What does Paez Vilaro do to search for the missing plane?

7. Describe the plane they chartered and the course which it was to take.

8. What was done after the air traffic control service lost contact with the Fairchild?

9. What is taking place back at the Fairchild?

10. How do the parents feel about the called off search? How do they respond to this?

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