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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of the waters from South American drain into the Amazon?
(a) 55%.
(b) Nearly 40%.
(c) About 30%.
(d) 25%.

2. How old was Fawcett's father when he died?
(a) 70.
(b) 56.
(c) 45.
(d) 61.

3. What is the name of the fish in the Amazon that is one of the few creatures in the world that survives strictly on a diet of blood?
(a) Black caiman.
(b) Candiru.
(c) Arapaima.
(d) Piranha.

4. When did the Royal Geographical Society award him with a gold medal for his contributions to mapping South America?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1916.

5. In Chapter 1, how old was Fawcett?
(a) 39.
(b) 57.
(c) 61.
(d) 43.

6. When was Fawcett born?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1864.

7. In Chapter 8, when did Sir George Taubman Goldie summon Fawcett and ask him what he knew about Bolivia?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1905.

8. In Chapter 6, how fast were automobiles first allowed to travel in London?
(a) 4 miles per hour.
(b) 3 miles per hour.
(c) 2 miles per hour.
(d) 5 miles per hour.

9. In Chapter 8, when Sir Roger Casement investigated mistreatment of Indians in the Amazon, how many Indian did he estimate had died at the hands of one rubber company alone?
(a) Some 30,000.
(b) About 28,000.
(c) 32,000.
(d) 24,000.

10. When did Venetian cartographer Fra Mauro create one of the most exhaustive maps of the world?
(a) 1478.
(b) 1411.
(c) 1424.
(d) 1459.

11. In 1900, where were classes held at the Royal Geographical Society?
(a) First floor.
(b) Basement.
(c) Third floor.
(d) Second floor.

12. In Chapter 6, what was anthropology called?
(a) Science of the uncivilized.
(b) Native people studies.
(c) Science of the undomesticated.
(d) Science of savages.

13. In Chapter 1, when did the London "Georgraphical Journal" write that Fawcett marked the end of an age?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

14. When were Fawcett and Nina married?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1900.

15. When did Theodore Roosevelt explore an Amazon tributary?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1888, how many fox terriers did Fawcett have in his room?

2. In Chapter 8, what was the first frontier town that Fawcett and Chivers came to?

3. When did Bolivia and Brazil attempt to build a railroad through the jungle?

4. When did Fawcett propose to Nina?

5. When did members of the nomadic Nukak-Maku tribe emerge from the Amazon in Colombia and announce that they were ready to join the modern world?

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