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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Goodall say she didn't like about South Africa?
(a) The city life.
(b) Shanty towns.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) The weather.

3. What is the first thing baby geese learn?
(a) To swim.
(b) To follow the first moving object.
(c) To eat.
(d) To flap their wings.

4. Which of the following subjects did Jane enjoy at school?
(a) History.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does Louis Leaky study?

2. Goodall thought Rusty had a sense of __________.

3. What kind of dance did von Frisch say bees performed?

4. What kind of hunt does Jane say made her sick when she participated in it?

5. What did Goodall begin to collect in Nairobi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Goodall say she first became interested in animals?

2. What did Jane do on her return to London?

3. What did Tinbergen find out about seagulls?

4. Why did Goodall decide against collecting animals as pets?

5. What did Jane learn about Germans when she went to visit the country?

6. What did Rusty teach Jane about animals?

7. Why does Jane know no languages other than English?

8. Why did Jane love the Canary Islands so much?

9. Describe Goodall's time at Oxford.

10. What are ethologists?

(see the answer keys)

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