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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In 1900, how large of a party did Rondon take on an expedition?
(a) 86.
(b) 78.
(c) 74.
(d) 81.
2. How old was Jack Fawcett when his father returned from the war?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.
3. In Chapter 12, when did Murray join a Canadian scientific expedition to the Arctic?
(a) May 1913.
(b) June 1913.
(c) April 1913.
(d) July 1913.
4. In Chapter 16, where did the author fly to find another Fawcett document?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rio de Janeiro.
(c) London.
(d) Brasilia.
5. In Chapter 12, where was Fawcett's family living in 1907?
(a) Southampton.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Devon.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many years of anti-snakebite venom was Fawcett given in Chapter 20?
2. In Chapter 17, when did Fawcett and his men take up positions along a river in Northern France?
3. When did Fawcett write to the Society and say that he would not subject his wife to the perpetual anxiety of his risky journeys?
4. In Chapter 13 when Lynch was in captivity, when he and his son awoke, how many armed men emerged from the forest?
5. At the end of Chapter 17, when did Fawcett set out on his own, alone?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 14, how did a Spanish friar describe what happened to a companion who was struck by a poison arrow?
2. How did Lynch escape from captivity when he was captured on his expedition to find what happened to Fawcett?
3. In Chapter 12, how did Nina prepare herself to be able to go on an expedition with her husband?
4. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?
5. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?
6. How would Fawcett approach Indians?
7. Why did Fawcett not want to take Colonel T. E. Lawrence on an expedition?
8. In Chapter 11, where did Fawcett wish to explore for Z and why?
9. Why was Fawcett not able to launch an expedition in September 1914?
10. How did Leonard Darwin introduce Fawcett in 1911 at a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society?
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