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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, why does Tarzan return to his father’s cabin at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) To make certain the door is locked.
(b) To clean the cabin up and bury the skeletons.
(c) To find the knife he took from the cabin.
(d) To see who his father might be.

2. In Chapter 5, what does Tarzan do when a lion kills his friend?
(a) Takes his friend’s body up a tree.
(b) Kills a lion.
(c) Climbs a tree.
(d) Swims to deep water.

3. Why does Tarzan decide to return to the village in Chapter 11?
(a) To steal more bracelets for the other apes.
(b) To watch the archers to understand how to use a bow.
(c) To see if they have books.
(d) To get more arrows.

4. What is Greystoke told, secretly?
(a) That the crew is going to mutiny.
(b) That the ship is going in the wrong direction.
(c) That the captain intends to kill Lord Greystoke.
(d) That the crew will back up Lord Greystoke in any fight.

5. What does Tarzan first do when he enters the cabin in Chapter 6?
(a) Moves the skeletons.
(b) Lays on the bed.
(c) Opens the cupboards and drawer.
(d) Sits in the chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lord Greystoke do in Chapter 3 immediately after his wife dies?

2. How does Tarzan become King of the Apes?

3. What does the small man do when Clayton walks away after arguing with him in Chapter 13?

4. What does Tarzan take after a Dum-Dum circle from a dead enemy ape?

5. What does Tarzan do with the pot of poison in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tarzan kill a gorilla, how does the gorilla injure Tarzan and how does Tarzan recover?

2. What does Lord Greystoke witness on the ship and what does Black Michael say is to be his fate?

3. Why is Lord Greystoke in Africa and what kind of man does the narrator say he is?

4. Why does Tarzan decide to kill a lioness and what happens in his first attempt in Chapter 8?

5. What does the Greystoke couple do in Freetown and how does Lord Greystoke run afoul of a ship captain?

6. What does Tarzan do on the way back to the tribe from the village in Chapter 11 and how do the members of the tribe react to his tale?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 7, why does Tarzan return to the cabin and what does he do there?

8. How do Tarzan and Clayton get back to the cabin fast when they hear a gunshot?

9. In Chapter 3, what happens when the ship reaches land and what do the Greystokes do immediately?

10. How does Kala’s baby ape die?

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