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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 can Jane see sitting on a nest of straw?
(a) A man.
(b) A bird.
(c) A rat.
(d) A mouse.

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

3. Where did many of the hens like to lay their eggs rather than the hen house?
(a) The woods.
(b) The long grass.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The bushes.

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

5. Why did Leakey offer Goodall a job?
(a) He needed an English speaker.
(b) She had all the right qualifications.
(c) She was pretty.
(d) She knew a lot about animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rusty live?

2. For which country is Nairobi the capital city?

3. What kind of dog was Peggy?

4. Goodall thought Rusty had a sense of __________.

5. What does Jane say one has to be to learn from animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the villagers think Lorenz was mad?

2. How did Goodall set up her camp in Gombe?

3. Why couldn't Jane go to Gombe National Park immediately?

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

5. What did Tinbergen find out about seagulls?

6. How did Jane ignite her passion for exotic animals as a youngster without ever seeing them?

7. What did Jane do once she was back in London?

8. How does Jane describe her father?

9. In what way was Leakey responsible for starting Jane's obsession with chimpanzees?

10. What did Louis Leakey discover a few years after Jane went fossil hunting with him?

(see the answer keys)

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