Orangutan School

Orangutans live in only two places in the world.  What are those two places?

• the Dallas Zoo and the Orangutan school
• China and India
• Australia and Indonesia
• Sumatra and Borneo, two islands in Asia

A serious problem for an orphan orangutan is...

• The orphans won't let the workers at the rescue centers feed or help them.
• The workers at the rescue centers don't want to keep the orphan orangutans there forever.
• Without a mom, the baby cannot learn everything it needs to know to survive.
• They don't want them to go to zoos.

Why do the doctors keep new orangutans away from the others in the center when they first arrive?

• the new orangutans might not be welcome by the other orangutans.
• the rescue workers need to continue to look for their mother.
• they want to keep them away from the other orangutans because the new animals might have diseases they could spread to the others
• many are injured and need to get well

One of the first and most important things an orphan orangutan needs to learn is...

• to climb
• have fun on a jungle gym
• to hunt for food
• how to find their mother

The reason why orangutans build nests is...

• to be able to see far away places
• to be able to keep off the jungle floor at night
• to be able to see food sources better
• to have a place for their babies to stay all the time

Why do the rescue workers take their time releasing orangutans back into the wild?

• it takes months or even years for the orangutans to have all the skills they need to survive
• they keep them as long as they can so visitors can see wild orangutans
• the workers like to work with the orangutans and it is hard to see them leave
• the orangutans are hard to teach because they are not very smart

What pages provides evidence that orangutans have a good ability to learn and have a good memory?

• pages 11 and 14
• pages 17 and 21
• the inset on page 5
• pages 2 and 3

The main text structures the author used in Orangutan School are...

• sequence and description
• problem/solution and question/answer
• problem/solution and sequence
• sequence and question/answer

The author wrote this book because...

• She wanted readers to know that orangutans are smart and can be trained.
• She wanted us to know some fun and interesting facts about orangutans.
• She felt it was important to tell us about the rescue center.
• She wanted us to know about a special place where orangutan orphans are cared for and trained to release back to the wild.