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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 Fawcett left in 1925, how many people did he say were aware of their objective?

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

3. In Chapter 12 after Murray got too ill to continue on the expedition, where did he end up where he was treated for his ailments?

4. In Chapter 14, what did Fawcett order the men to do when they were fired upon by arrows?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?

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

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

4. In Chapter 11, where did Fawcett wish to explore for Z and why?

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

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

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

8. How did George Lynch help Fawcett raise money for an expedition?

9. In Chapter 12, how did Nina prepare herself to be able to go on an expedition with her husband?

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

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 was obsessed with exploration. Was Fawcett most pleased when he found what he was looking for, or did he enjoy the pursuit more?

Essay Topic 3

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

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