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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 Chapter 17, when did Fawcett and his men take up positions along a river in Northern France?
(a) July, 1916.
(b) June, 1916.
(c) August, 1916.
(d) July, 1916.

2. In Chapter 18, how many horsepower did Dr. Rice's hydroplane have?
(a) 150.
(b) 160.
(c) 80.
(d) 70.

3. What was Fawcett's rank at the beginning of Chapter 17 when he was in the Royal Field Artillery?
(a) Major.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) General.
(d) Colonel.

4. In Chapter 12, how long did pack animals typically survive in the Amazon on an expedition?
(a) 8 weeks.
(b) No more than a month.
(c) About 2 months.
(d) 3 months.

5. When did Fawcett move his family to Jamaica?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, when did Murray join a Canadian scientific expedition to the Arctic?

2. How many documents are housed in Brazil's National Library?

3. In Chapter 12, where was Fawcett's family living in 1907?

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

5. In Chapter 14, where was Fawcett, Costin, and others exploring when they were attached by arrows?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what was James Lynch doing?

2. Why was Fawcett not able to launch an expedition in September 1914?

3. Who was Alexander Hamilton Rice?

4. Why did the rubber boom collapse in South America?

5. How did Lynch escape from captivity when he was captured on his expedition to find what happened to Fawcett?

6. In Chapter 17, how did an encounter with the Yanomami unfold when Dr. Rice and his party encountered them?

7. What did the manuscript look like that Grann viewed at the National Library in Chapter 16?

8. In Chapter 11, where did Fawcett wish to explore for Z and why?

9. How did George Lynch help Fawcett raise money for an expedition?

10. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

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