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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. Why do the parents hire another plane to take them to Santiago?

2. How is the search expanded?

3. How had snow entered the plane?

4. Can airplanes be flown low in the mountain range?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the ninth day begin?

4. Describe Uruguay when this book was written.

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

6. Describe Day Ten.

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

8. What do the family members do once they reach Santiago?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The families suffer several disappointments.

Part 1) Describe two of these disappointments. How are they affected by these disappointments?

Part 2) If this accident had occurred in the United States, would these disappointments still have occurred? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do these disappointments make the successful outcome more bittersweet?

Essay Topic 2

The Fairchild is found.

Part 1) How is the Fairchild found? Could it have been found without the aid of the two hikers? Explain.

Part 2) What might have been the reactions of both the survivors and the families? Explain.

Part 3) How would you feel if you had been a survivor or family member? What might be your reaction?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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