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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. In Chapter 17, when was Fawcett ready to look for the City of Z, but was stopped by World War I?
(a) November 1914.
(b) August 1914.
(c) October 1914.
(d) September 1914.

2. In Chapter 6, how long had it been since Fawcett left England for Ceylon?
(a) 21 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 14 years.

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) Candiru.
(b) Arapaima.
(c) Piranha.
(d) Black caiman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Fawcett when he volunteered to serve in World War I?

2. 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?

3. In 1896, how many professors of anthropology were there in Great Britain?

4. In Chapter 8 since the excavation of the Panama canal began in 1881, how many laborers died from malaria and yellow fever?

5. In Chapter 2, how many Indian tribes did the Brazilian government estimate at the time of the writing of the book had never been contacted by outsiders?

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