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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the female companion?
(a) Joan.
(b) Janice.
(c) Jamie.
(d) Jessie.

2. Which operation is supposedly required before Fossey can return to Africa?
(a) Inner ear.
(b) Tonsilectomy.
(c) Appendectomy.
(d) Heart.

3. What is the name of the guide Fossey engages?
(a) Stormcloud.
(b) Squanto.
(c) Sacagawea.
(d) Sanwekwe.

4. Pantsy gives birth to a boy named _____.
(a) Shinda.
(b) Buck.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Farley.

5. What is the name of Fossey's dog?
(a) Sassy.
(b) Cindy.
(c) Carla.
(d) Jamie.

6. Like many secured human communities, the gorillas tend to use _____ to protect their young.
(a) Enforcers.
(b) Fences.
(c) Sentries.
(d) Weapons.

7. What item of interest did Fossey want to see?
(a) River.
(b) Stadium.
(c) Lama.
(d) Fossil.

8. The trip was supposed to last for how many weeks?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

9. What item does Fossey give to the gorilla to keep him occupied and out of her things?
(a) Magazine.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Ball of string.
(d) Clay.

10. Which is not one of the names given to the gorillas?
(a) Curry.
(b) Icarus.
(c) Bravery.
(d) Brahms

11. One of the young silverbacks has been injured by which of the following?
(a) Shotgun.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Trap.
(d) Arrow.

12. Fossey compared the gorilla to a ____.
(a) Panda.
(b) Crow.
(c) Koala.
(d) Serpent.

13. How old is the young male?
(a) 1 year old.
(b) 3 years old.
(c) 2 years old.
(d) 5 years old.

14. Pantsy and an older gorilla named _____ are expecting babies.
(a) Marchessa.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Icarus.
(d) Puck.

15. What is the name given to the young silverback?
(a) Brahms.
(b) Bertie.
(c) Bach.
(d) Balsam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fossey uses the name of which famous composer?

2. In what year did Beethoven seem to recover and take charge of the group once more?

3. How old, on average, is the youngest group of gorillas to leave their mothers?

4. How many weeks later does Fossey go into a gorilla-inhabited territory?

5. What type of animal constantly ruined Fossey's garden?

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