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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 16, how many manuscripts are in Brazil's National Library?
(a) 740,000.
(b) Around 800,000.
(c) About 500,000.
(d) 630,000.

2. How old was Fawcett when he volunteered to serve in World War I?
(a) 47.
(b) 44.
(c) 45.
(d) 46.

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

4. In Chapter 14, when was the only time that Fawcett shot at Indians?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1916.

5. In Chapter 16, where did the author fly to find another Fawcett document?
(a) Rio de Janeiro.
(b) Paris.
(c) Brasilia.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13 when Lynch was in captivity, when he and his son awoke, how many armed men emerged from the forest?

2. In Chapter 17, when was Fawcett ready to look for the City of Z, but was stopped by World War I?

3. In Chapter 11, between what two rivers did Fawcett believe he would find relics of an ancient civilization?

4. How much did the radio device hat Dr. Rice took on an expedition in Chapter 17 cost?

5. In Chapter 17 when Raleigh Rimell damaged a letter box, what did he have to pay to replace it?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 19, how did Grann describe the situation for many indigenous people in modern times?

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

3. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 12, what did Fawcett want to forget and go home?

5. Who was Alexander Hamilton Rice?

6. How would Fawcett approach Indians?

7. What did Fawcett speculate happened to the Amazon populations that the conquistadors encountered?

8. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?

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

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

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