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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 does Jane watch the chicken doing?
(a) Pecking another chicken.
(b) Attempting to fly.
(c) Eating grain.
(d) Laying an egg.

2. What subject did Louis Leakey study?
(a) History
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Anthroplogy.
(d) Biology.

3. What animal did Jane enjoy feeding at the manor house?
(a) Geese.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Hens.

4. Which of the following birds did Jane see at the Oxford river?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Kingfishers.
(d) Hawks.

5. Where did Leakey take Goodall for an expedition?
(a) Victoria Lake.
(b) Olduvai Gorge.
(c) Cook Island.
(d) Mluvami Valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Goodall like to collect in the area she lived in during the war?

2. What kind of school did Jane go to in London?

3. What does Jane say she was puzzled about as a five-year-old?

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

5. Which of the following subjects did Jane find difficult at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Jane decide to travel to Africa?

3. What did Jane and her mother do while waiting for permission to observe the chimp in Gombe Park?

4. Why did Jane's mother come with her to Tanzania?

5. Why did the villagers think Lorenz was mad?

6. Describe Goodall's time at Oxford.

7. How does the author define the word animal?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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