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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. How does Tarzan continue his lessons when his tribe is far from the cabin?
(a) Arranging twigs to represent letters.
(b) He scratches on logs with his knife.
(c) Talking with other goats.
(d) He carries the books with him.

2. What does Tarzan keep telling Clayton to do about the lion?
(a) Leave the lion to Tarzan.
(b) Stab it with one of Tarzan’s arrows.
(c) Shoot it with his gun.
(d) Hit it over the head.

3. What does Tarzan mean in ape language?
(a) Human.
(b) King.
(c) White skin.
(d) Stupid.

4. What does the small man who is arguing with a larger man do in Chapter 13?
(a) Shoot the larger man in the back.
(b) Throw a bucket of water on the larger man’s face.
(c) Kick the larger man in the groin.
(d) Raise his fist and return to the ship.

5. What does Lord Greystoke stop the captain of their charter boat from doing?
(a) Kissing Alice.
(b) Beating a dog.
(c) Shooting a crew member.
(d) Throwing a man overboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tarzan get a bow and arrows?

2. What does Tarzan find out about the door to the cabin from the inside?

3. How do the older males in the tribe feel about Tarzan?

4. How does the narrator describe Lord Greystoke’s morals?

5. What has Tarzan been unable to master in his lessons in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kala die and what does Tarzan do about her death?

2. How and why does Tarzan kill Tublet?

3. 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?

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

5. How does Tarzan feel about the men who have come to the cabin?

6. How does Tarzan become King of the Apes?

7. How does Alice lose her memory of her recent past?

8. How does Tarzan learn to read and write and at what age does he read the child’s primer?

9. What does Tarzan do in Kulonga’s hut in the village and how do the villagers react?

10. What does Tarzan do about clothing for himself?

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