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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. How does Paez Vilar become known?
(a) As an intelligent man.
(b) As the foolish man searching for his lost son.
(c) As the only man to go looking for his son.
(d) As the man who has lost his mind.

2. How does Ponce de Leon help the families?
(a) He uses his clairvoyant visions to find the plane.
(b) He contacts the Air Force.
(c) He uses his radio to shuttle information between the families and officials.
(d) He calls his friends in the United States.

3. For what were citizens in the 1950s searching?
(a) Radical changes.
(b) Reform.
(c) Stability.
(d) A new leader.

4. 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 cockpit radio will work.
(c) The cockpit radio will no longer work.
(d) The plane may still be functional.

5. How had Numa Tarcatti and Pancho Delgado survived under the snow?
(a) They had warm blankets.
(b) They had a pocket of air to breathe.
(c) They screamed for help.
(d) They poked holes in the snow to breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gustavo Nicolich's role during this tragedy?

2. What do the parents agree to do with this information?

3. How many more victims had been claimed by this snow?

4. What does the Air Force do to the parents?

5. What is discovered back at the Fairchild?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Marcelo Perez and Daniel Fernandez feel about their friends? What do they do to help their friends?

2. How is the expedition?

3. How does Ponce de Leon help the families of those lost in the Andes?

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

5. Who is Rafael Ponce de Leon?

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

7. What complicated the search?

8. What information does Croiset Jr. give the parents?

9. Who saved many from the avalanche?

10. How do the survivors feel about the search being resumed?

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