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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 old was Fawcett's father when he died?

2. In Chapter 8, when did Francis Younghusband serve as president of the Royal Geographical Society?

3. In Chapter 6, what did Lieutenant T. Dannreuther collect?

4. In Chapter 10, how old was Frank Fisher when he agreed to explore the Verde with Fawcett?

5. In 1901, where was Fawcett sent by the British government as a spy?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Grann went shopping for items for his expedition, what did a salesman help Grann purchase after he learned Grann had never been camping?

2. What happened to Lynch and his party at the end of Chapter 2?

3. In Chapter 8, what mission did Sir George Taubman Goldie ask Fawcett to undertake?

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

5. How was Fawcett taught to see everything around him?

6. Where was Fawcett in 1888?

7. In Chapter 3, what does the author say happened when he was working on a story?

8. In Chapter 1, how was Fawcett described?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Heckenberger believed that anthropologists needed to look beyond the small tribes in the Amazon. Why did Heckenberger believe that anthropologists needed to look beyond the small tribes, and what did he think they would discover?

Essay Topic 2

Many mysteries are presented in the book, but none are resolved. How do the unresolved mysteries affect Nina, various explorers, and even the author?

Essay Topic 3

Fawcett believed there was a lost city, and archaeologists and anthropologists are looking for lost worlds today. How does the author present the theme that there are unseen worlds waiting to be discovered, and what does the author reveal about unseen worlds in the book?

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