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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. When did Hernan Cortes find the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan?

2. How many documents are housed in Brazil's National Library?

3. In Chapter 18, where did Nina move the family after leaving Jamaica?

4. In Chapter 12, when did Nina visit Fawcett in South America?

5. In Chapter 12, when did Murray join a Canadian scientific expedition to the Arctic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fawcett and others in the book believed in their own destiny. What did Fawcett believe about his personal destiny, and how did that influence the way that he lived his life?

Essay Topic 2

Fawcett had two sons, but was closest to his son Jack. What type of relationship did Fawcett have with his two sons, and how did the way that he showed favoritism toward Jack affect his relationship with Brian?

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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