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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 the Cinta Larga tribe kill 29 diamond miners who trespassed onto a reservation in western Brazil?

2. In Chapter 16, what type of ceiling was in the manuscript division in Brazil's National Library?

3. For 15 years after his homecoming in 1907, how many square miles of the Amazon did Fawcett discover?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Leonard Darwin introduce Fawcett in 1911 at a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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

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