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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five - Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 16, what was the date of the manuscript that Grann was allowed to view at Brazil's National Library?
(a) 1694.
(b) 1731.
(c) 1753.
(d) 1689.

3. When did Gonzalo Pizarro launch the first expedition in search of El Dorado?
(a) 1581.
(b) 1594.
(c) 1541.
(d) 1511.

4. In Chapter 11, when was Fawcett's "Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin" dated?
(a) March 11, 1924.
(b) January 9, 1924.
(c) February 3, 1924.
(d) April 13, 1924.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of anti-snakebite venom was Fawcett given in Chapter 20?

2. In Chapter 23, on their journey to the Kuluene, how fast could the truck that the author hired travel?

3. In Chapter 1, what size was the SS Vauban?

4. In Chapter 25, when did Udo Luckner predict that the world would end?

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

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