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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men died during Carvajal's expedition to find El Dorado?

2. In Chapter 4, how old was Fawcett when he was sent to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich?

3. In Chapter 2, at what elevation does the Amazon River begin?

4. An expedition of how many men went to the area of Z and died?

5. In Chapter 3, how tall was David Grann?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, why in 1740 were fewer than 120 places on the planet accurately mapped?

2. Why were explorers and mapmakers recruited by the British government to serve as spies?

3. In Chapter 10, what was Fawcett's assignment?

4. In Chapter 6, who was Edward Ayearst Reeves?

5. When and where was Fawcett's first assignment after he received his diploma from the Royal Geographical Society?

6. How does the author describe himself in Chapter 3?

7. When was the Royal Geographical Society of London created and what was its purpose?

8. In Chapter 8, what information was Fawcett able to discern about the sultan in Morocco?

9. Where does the Amazon river begin?

10. Where was Fawcett in 1888?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Indians were enslaved and killed as Europeans came to South America. How did the Europeans treat the indigenous people, and how did prejudice influence the way that Europeans treated the Indians?

Essay Topic 2

Fawcett could be at home with his family only a short time before he longed for the wilderness again. How was Fawcett attracted to the wilderness, and how did being in the wilderness satisfy his inner self?

Essay Topic 3

As Fawcett served in World War I, he became to believe that Europeans were the savages, not the Indians of South America. What did Fawcett observe during the war, and how did his observations lead him to believe that Europeans were savages and were not superior to Indians.

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