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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) August, 1916.
(b) June, 1916.
(c) July, 1916.
(d) July, 1916.

2. In Chapter 12, where was Fawcett's family living in 1907?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Devon.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Southampton.

3. In Chapter 14, who did Fawcett fear as a rival?
(a) Henry Savage Landor.
(b) Alexander Hamilton Rice.
(c) Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

4. When did the Cinta Larga tribe kill 29 diamond miners who trespassed onto a reservation in western Brazil?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2006.

5. In Chapter 17 when Raleigh Rimell damaged a letter box, what did he have to pay to replace it?
(a) 10 shillings.
(b) 12 shillings.
(c) 20 shillings.
(d) 5 shillings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what tribe of Indians did Dr. Rice's party encounter?

2. When did Fawcett write to the Society and say that he would not subject his wife to the perpetual anxiety of his risky journeys?

3. In Chapter 12 after Murray got too ill to continue on the expedition, where did he end up where he was treated for his ailments?

4. In Chapter 13, how long did Lynch say that he and his party were held hostage?

5. In 1907 how long was Fawcett home before he wanted to travel again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 12, how did Nina prepare herself to be able to go on an expedition with her husband?

3. In Chapter 20, why did Fawcett try to persuade Raleigh to return with the guides?

4. When did World War I end, and what was the cost of the war in human lives?

5. Who wrote the manuscript that Grann viewed in Chapter 16?

6. Why did Fawcett not want to take Colonel T. E. Lawrence on an expedition?

7. In Chapter 20, how did the men who served under Fawcett during the war feel about him?

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

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

10. In Chapter 14, how did a Spanish friar describe what happened to a companion who was struck by a poison arrow?

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