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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five - Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what size was the SS Vauban?
(a) 321 feet.
(b) 511 feet.
(c) 680 feet.
(d) 492 feet.

2. When was Fawcett born?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1865.

3. In Chapter 6, what did Lieutenant T. Dannreuther collect?
(a) Rare butterflies and insects.
(b) Dried flowers and grasses.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Fossils.

4. When Grann talked with one of Fawcett's grandchildren, what were the dates of the diaries that she let Grann read?
(a) 1904-1923.
(b) 1905-1920.
(c) 1906-1921.
(d) 1902-1917.

5. In Chapter 24, how did Brian's first wife die?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Child birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What birthday did Lynch celebrate when he went on his expedition to find what happened to Fawcett?

2. When did Theodore Roosevelt explore an Amazon tributary?

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

4. When did Speke claim that he discovered the source of the Nile?

5. In Chapter 23, on their journey to the Kuluene, how fast could the truck that the author hired travel?

(see the answer key)

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