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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 14, where was Fawcett, Costin, and others exploring when they were attached by arrows?

3. Who did Raleigh fall in love with on the voyage from New York in Chapter 20?

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

5. In Chapter 20, when did Fawcett, Jack and Raleigh leave Rio de Janeiro?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What mysterious box did Dr. Rice take on an expedition in Chapter 17?

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

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

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

8. How did the Echojas remove grubs from someone?

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

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’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 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 could be at home with his family only a short time before he longed for the wilderness again. How was Fawcett attracted to the wilderness, and how did being in the wilderness satisfy his inner self?

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