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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. Which of the following was the name of one of Goodall's chimps?

2. What did Jane spend most of her time doing in London?

3. The refugees who were try to avoid the fighting were from the ___________,

4. What kind of car did Goodall and Hugo own?

5. Where does Goodall find a job in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Goodall meet David Greybeard?

2. How did Goodall work to get the chimps accustomed to her?

3. What does Goodall say she finds interesting about hyenas?

4. How did Goodall cope with studying animals while raising a child?

5. What did Flo teach Goodall about female chimps?

6. How does Goodall describe the red gold buck she sees?

7. What traumatic experience did Goodall and her students go through in 1975?

8. What does Goodall say she has appreciated about her life so far?

9. What is Chimpanzoo?

10. How does Goodall currently live her life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the influence that Jane's mother, Louis Leavey, and Hugo van Lawick had on Jane's life.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does she use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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