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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 Fawcett move his family to Jamaica?

2. In Chapter 11, when was Fawcett's "Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin" dated?

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

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

5. At the end of Chapter 13, where was Lynch planning an expedition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 13, what was James Lynch doing?

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

8. How did Fawcett describe home in Chapter 12?

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

10. In Chapter 14, how did a Spanish friar describe what happened to a companion who was struck by a poison arrow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fawcett had two sons, but was closest to his son Jack. What type of relationship did Fawcett have with his two sons, and how did the way that he showed favoritism toward Jack affect his relationship with Brian?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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