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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 much money did George Lynch help Fawcett raise for his expedition?

2. In Chapter 13, what did Lynch say was the value of the ransom he had to pay to save himself and his party?

3. In Chapter 12, when did Murray reach La Paz?

4. In Chapter 12, how long did pack animals typically survive in the Amazon on an expedition?

5. In Chapter 17 when in 1916 did Fawcett receive a gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?

2. Who was Alexander Hamilton Rice?

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

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

5. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explorers tended to be men who were not comfortable in society. Why did men become explorers, and how did their unsociability contribute to their desire to explore?

Essay Topic 2

During the nineteenth century many believed in environmental determinism. What was environmental determinism, and how was the theory being disproved by recent archaeological discoveries?

Essay Topic 3

The Royal Geographical Society was founded in 1830. What was the role of the Society in geography and exploration, and why was the society so necessary in the nineteenth century?

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