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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 are Leakey and Goodall hunting for in this section?

2. Which fictional doctor did Jane loving reading about as a child?

3. Where did Rusty live?

4. What does Jane watch the chicken doing?

5. What does Jane say there was little of during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Goodall say she does as an ethologist?

2. Why was meeting Louis Leakey such an important part of Jane's life?

3. How does the author define the word animal?

4. What does Goodall say was the process of getting to learn so much about chimps?

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

6. What did Tinbergen find out about seagulls?

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

8. How did the area Jane grew up in develop her love for animals?

9. How did Jane learn to ride a horse?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the differences between the formats of a novel and an autobiography. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

Essay Topic 2

How do chimps live together? In what ways are their behaviors similar to those of humans? Can Jane's research into chimp behavior be beneficial for humans and how we live our own lives?

Essay Topic 3

How has Goodall continued to help chimpanzees? What do you think the future holds for Goodall and her chimps?

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