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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 was the name of the friend Goodall met in Kenya?

2. What was the name of Louis' wife?

3. What is the first thing baby geese learn?

4. What can Jane see sitting on a nest of straw?

5. What kind of geese is Lorenz most famous for working with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Rusty teach Jane about animals?

5. What are ethologists?

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

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

8. Why did the villagers think Lorenz was mad?

9. What did Jane think of school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Jane say she is concerned about the welfare of chimps? How does she think humans can help to preserve the chimp species?

Essay Topic 2

What is ethology? What famous ethologists have there been? What did they contribute to the field of study? Why has Jane made such a good ethologist?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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