Selection Test: From 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

Which of the following animals does Goodall encounter in the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees? (choose 3)

• horse

• buffalo

• leopard

• baboon

• kangaroo

According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, 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.

According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, which of the following statements are true? (choose 3)

• Chimpanzees use sounds to communicate.

• Chimpanzees enjoy the rain.

• Chimpanzees live in groups and communities.

• Chimpanzees are eager to interact with humans.

• Chimpanzees sleep with their mothers until age five or six.

What important discovery did Jane Goodall make during her early years at Gombe Park?

• Chimpanzees can learn to write.

• Chimpanzees make and use tools.

• Chimpanzees give each other names.,

• Chimpanzees eat mostly fruits and nuts.

If the leopard vanished into the forest, which of the following must be true?

• It was captured.

• It made a loud cry.

• It can no longer be seen.

• It moved at a high speed.

What is the meaning of 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

Which passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees most clearly supports that Jane 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 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 and 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.