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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 were wounded?
2. In Chapter 13 when Lynch was in captivity, when he and his son awoke, how many armed men emerged from the forest?
3. How old was James Murray when he and Fawcett teamed up for an expedition in 1911?
4. In Chapter 11, when was Fawcett's "Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin" dated?
5. In Chapter 14, who did Fawcett fear as a rival?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 12, what did Fawcett want to forget and go home?
2. How did George Lynch help Fawcett raise money for an expedition?
3. What did the manuscript look like that Grann viewed at the National Library in Chapter 16?
4. In Chapter 11, where did Fawcett wish to explore for Z and why?
5. How did Leonard Darwin introduce Fawcett in 1911 at a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society?
6. What did Fawcett speculate happened to the Amazon populations that the conquistadors encountered?
7. In Chapter 17, how did an encounter with the Yanomami unfold when Dr. Rice and his party encountered them?
8. Why did the rubber boom collapse in South America?
9. In Chapter 19, how did Grann describe the situation for many indigenous people in modern times?
10. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Indians were enslaved and killed as Europeans came to South America. How did the Europeans treat the indigenous people, and how did prejudice influence the way that Europeans treated the Indians?
Essay Topic 2
Fawcett was a great explorer, but a poor family man. What were Fawcett’s primary character traits, and how did those traits make him a great explorer, but a bad family man and husband?
Essay Topic 3
Fawcett became obsessed with finding the city of Z, explorers became obsessed to find Fawcett, and even the author became obsessed to learn what happened to Fawcett. What is the basic motivation for the obsession that affects so many people in the book, and how does that motivate individuals to pursue their goals?
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