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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. During the Battle of the Somme, how many British soldiers died?

2. How much did the radio device hat Dr. Rice took on an expedition in Chapter 17 cost?

3. How old was James Murray when he and Fawcett teamed up for an expedition in 1911?

4. In Chapter 17, how many lives of Royal Geographical Society members did Grann say were killed by the war?

5. In Chapter 18, how many horsepower did Dr. Rice's hydroplane have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Alexander Hamilton Rice?

2. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

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

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

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

6. Why did Fawcett not want to take Colonel T. E. Lawrence on an expedition?

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

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

9. In Chapter 19, how did Grann describe the situation for many indigenous people in modern times?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fawcett was taught to use autopsis when he studied to become an explorer. What is autopsis and why was it so important for spies and for explorers?

Essay Topic 2

Fawcett’s wife Nina subjugated her desires and goals to support her husband. How did Nina subjugate her desires and goals to support her husband, and how did misogyny and discrimination cause Nina to have to give up her own dreams and plans?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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