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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of mammal did Jane have an argument with her aunt about?

2. Where did Leakey take Goodall for an expedition?

3. What country did Jane visit after she finished school?

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

5. Jane compares collecting eggs to _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Goodall and her family cope during the war?

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

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

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

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

6. What did Jane think of school?

7. What are ethologists?

8. How does the author define the word animal?

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

10. What did Tinbergen find out about seagulls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What events in Jane's life contributed to her decision to study chimpanzees? Why do you think she chose to study chimpanzees over other animals?

Essay Topic 2

How did World War II affect Jane and her family? What does Jane's being sent to Germany by her mother after the war say about Jane's upbringing?

Essay Topic 3

What made Goodall a good ethologist? What did Goodall have to learn to become a successful ethologist?

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