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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 Ponce de Leon's radio utilized?
(a) To contact the president of Uruguay.
(b) To find the hikers.
(c) To make necessary arrangements for the parents and the planes.
(d) To contact the survivors.

2. How does the extreme altitude affect the boys?
(a) It wears on their bodies and exhausts them.
(b) It makes it easier to breathe.
(c) It ends their hike.
(d) It forces them to turn around.

3. When the survivors hear rumbling, what do they believe it is?
(a) Another avalanche.
(b) A bear.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A rescue helicopter.

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

5. Why are this many people rescued first?
(a) To anger the other survivors.
(b) To care for them without incurring any undue danger.
(c) To advertise this extraordinary rescue.
(d) To prepare the others for the flight later in the day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the parents doing as Canessa and Parrado hike through the Andes?

2. Why is there little snow on the top of the mountain?

3. Why do the boys not kill the cow?

4. During the night what does Diaz tell the survivors?

5. What does the next morning bring?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Wednesday, December 20th important?

2. What do the parents learn from Ponce de Leon's radio?

3. What was happening with the search while Parrado and Canessa hiked?

4. Why is Paez Vilaro detained by the international police?

5. On what do Canessa and Parrado focus during their hike?

6. How do the men cross the river?

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

8. Why are Canessa and Parrado nervous?

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

10. It is surprising to the survivors?

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