Autobiography Elements & "My Life with the Chimpanzees"

According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, why did Jane Goodall go to Gombe National Park?

• to join a chimpanzee family

• to study chimpanzee behavior

• to work as a chimpanzee doctor

• to learn to make chimpanzee tools

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

Which of the following animals does Goodall NOT encounter while studying the chimpanzees?

• buffalo

• leopard

• horse

• baboon

What made “the Peak” one of Goodall’s favorite places?

• The views from the Peak were excellent.

• The trees on the Peak provided plenty of food.

• The chimps that lived on the Peak were friendly.

• The silence on the Peak helped her think and write.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

According to Goodall's observations, which statement about chimpanzees are NOT true?

• Chimpanzees enjoy the rain.

• Chimpanzees use sounds and gestures to communicate.

• Chimpanzees live in groups and communities.

• Chimpanzees give birth every 4-6 years and they stay with their mothers until age five or six.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.8

If the leopard vanished into the forest, which of the following must be true? Base your answer on the meaning of vanished.

• It was captured.

• It made a loud cry.

• It can no longer be seen.

• It moved at a high speed.

Which is the most likely meaning of miserable in the following sentence? Wearing wet shoes and soggy socks on a long hike can make a person miserable.

• thirsty

• grateful

• talkative

• unhappy

An impetuous person is most likely to do which of the following?

• keep a promise

• tell boring jokes

• give people orders

• act without thinking

Which word best describes the young Jane Goodall?

• bossy

• patient

• helpless

• generous

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which excerpt supports the idea that Jane Goodall is patient?

• During those months of gradual discovery, the chimps very slowly began to realize that I was not so frightening after all. Even so, it was almost a year before I could approach to within one hundred yards.

• I carried a little tin trunk up there. In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug. Then, when I got tired from a long trek to another valley, I could make a drink in the middle of the day. I kept a blanket up there, too, . . .

• After supper I would get out the little notebook in which I had scribbled everything I had seen while watching the chimps during the day. I would settle down to write it all legibly into my journal.

• Instead of writing the information in notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder. Then I could keep my eyes on the chimps all the time. By the end of the day there was so much typing to be done that I found I couldn't do it all myself.

Read this passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees.

Suddenly a chimp charged straight toward me. His hair bristled with rage. At the last minute he swerved and ran off. I stayed still. Two more chimps charged nearby. Then, suddenly, I realized I was alone again. All the chimps had gone.

What does Goodall achieve by including this passage in her memoir?

• She shows that chimps have many human traits.

• She shows that the chimps had accepted her.

• She shows that being accepted by the chimps meant overcoming their hostility.

• She shows that her time among the chimps was a failure because they never really accepted her.