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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 is the scientific name for the skull Leakey and his wife found?

2. Which of the following birds did Jane see at the Oxford river?

3. What is the first thing baby geese learn?

4. What did Jane get a job doing during the holidays?

5. What kind of boating does Jane say is harder than canoeing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author define the word animal?

4. Why did Jane decide to travel to Africa?

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

6. How does Jane describe her father?

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

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

9. What did Jane think of school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What regrets does Jane have about life? What pleases Jane about how she lived her life? What can you learn about life from reading Goodall's biography?

Essay Topic 3

How has Jane helped chimps in the following areas: national parks, hunting, zoos, the circus, and television?

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