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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jane get a job doing during the holidays?
(a) Working in a cowshed.
(b) Working in the stable.
(c) Collecting duck eggs.
(d) Working on a chicken farm.

2. Which of the following sea life does Jane say she glimpsed in the sea on the way to Africa?
(a) Flying fish.
(b) Rooster fish.
(c) Ray fish.
(d) Piranhas.

3. Leakey grew up with ___________.
(a) The Kikiyu tribe.
(b) The Sans tribe.
(c) The Wren tribe.
(d) The Juniper tribe.

4. Jane traveled to Africa on the liner named ______________.
(a) Swasi-mound.
(b) Kenya Castle.
(c) Nigeria Gold.
(d) Timbuktoo.

5. How did Goodall first travel to Africa?
(a) By train.
(b) By car.
(c) By plane.
(d) By passenger liner.

6. Whom does Jane say her mother is about to call?
(a) The police.
(b) The fire brigade.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her best friend.

7. What did Lorenz find out about the relationship between male and female geese?
(a) They kiss each other.
(b) They are faithful to each other.
(c) They go through painful separations.
(d) They always hate each other.

8. What is the name of Jane's sister?
(a) Denise.
(b) Judy.
(c) Petra.
(d) Lauren.

9. What does Jane say she was puzzled about as a five-year-old?
(a) Chicken eggs.
(b) Police cars.
(c) Chicken beaks.
(d) Mother's Day.

10. Which of the following birds did Jane find scary?
(a) Swans.
(b) Geese.
(c) Mallards.
(d) Chickens.

11. What kind of animal did Danny Nutt love?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Geese.
(c) Apes.
(d) Cats.

12. What are Leakey and Goodall hunting for in this section?
(a) Chimps.
(b) Fossils.
(c) Artifacts.
(d) Bones.

13. What does a dog do before it lies down in bed?
(a) Whimpers three times.
(b) Rolls on its back.
(c) Goes round in a circle.
(d) Barks once.

14. Goodall thought Rusty had a sense of __________.
(a) Warm and cold.
(b) Color.
(c) Right and wrong.
(d) Humor.

15. What is the scientific name for the skull Leakey and his wife found?
(a) Goobocarritus.
(b) Badlitcus.
(c) Afrocaneanus.
(d) Australopithecus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane say there was little of during the war?

2. What kind of bird has Tinbergen examined?

3. Where did Leakey take Goodall for an expedition?

4. How was Danny Nutt related to Jane?

5. Where did many of the hens like to lay their eggs rather than the hen house?

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