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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four - Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who did Raleigh fall in love with on the voyage from New York in Chapter 20?
(a) Daughter of a British Earl.
(b) An American girl from New York.
(c) Daughter of a British duke.
(d) An American girl from California.

5. In Chapter 2, when did a group of Brazilian scientists and adventurers search for signs of Colonel Percy Fawcett?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what percent of young men did an English general claim were unfit to meet the requirements of military service?

2. In Chapter 17, when did Nina write to the Royal Geographical Society saying that Fawcett had been gassed?

3. What was Fawcett's rank at the beginning of Chapter 17 when he was in the Royal Field Artillery?

4. When Fawcett and Chivers left Riberalta September 25, 1906, how many desperadoes and native guides accompanied them?

5. In Chapter 17, where did Fawcett and Lyne dig trenches along with their men?

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