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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 is the snow under their feet?
(a) Sharp.
(b) Hard.
(c) Slippery.
(d) Mushy.

2. How many carabineers arrived and asked for directions to the plane?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

3. With what are Armando and Enrique happy to supply the hikers?
(a) Food and shelter.
(b) Blankets and medicine.
(c) Stories and firewood.
(d) More food and pleasant conversation.

4. What time does the helicopter arrive to pick up the last survivors?
(a) Eight o'clock.
(b) One o'clock.
(c) Five o'clock.
(d) Ten o'clock.

5. What is one of the men's concerns?
(a) The survivors will not last the night.
(b) The hikers will not be found.
(c) The rescue crew will not be able to find them.
(d) Another avalanche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the next morning bring?

2. Where is a cross discovered?

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

4. Where are the survivors brought?

5. The families oscillated between what?

Short Essay Questions

1. It is surprising to the survivors?

2. What do the survivors discover on day seventy-one?

3. What do the thirteen survivors do as this section begins?

4. How do the parents feel about the reading of the survivors' names?

5. When do Canessa and Parrado first encounter another human being?

6. What happens after the last survivors are rescued?

7. What takes place on December 12th?

8. How do the two men proceed after Vizintin goes back to the Fairchild?

9. How do the survivors react to the Andinists?

10. What do the survivors do when the first eight are flown away?

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