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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was a democratic state created?

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

3. What does Paez Vilaro do to find the lost rugby players?

4. When does summer begin in the Andes?

5. Who comforts Marcelo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Rafael Ponce de Leon?

2. Describe Day Ten.

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

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

5. What are the effects of a second avalanche?

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

7. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bittersweet feelings sweep over the parents when the survivors' name are read.

Part 1) Why are the feelings bittersweet?

Part 2) What are your thoughts about the reactions of the family members? Are you at all surprised? Why or why not?

Part 3) How would you feel and react as the family member of one of the passengers who had not survived? How would you interact with the other family members and survivors? Why would you act this way?

Essay Topic 2

The survivors were not evacuated immediately.

Part 1) Why were they not evacuated immediately?

Part 2) How might they have felt about this?

Part 3) How might the rescue crew have felt when approaching the survivors? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Religion and faith are important to many of the survivors.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How does their faith change throughout the events in this book?

Part 3) How might their faith be today? Use the text to support your response.

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