ACT Lesson #12: Summarizing Key Ideas and Details Exit Slip

The passage makes clear that Goodall’s colleagues at Cambridge thought less of her because she:

• was emotional in her study of chimpanzees.

• did not have a college degree.

• assigned names to the chimps she studied instead of numbers.

• was from a small, rural town.

For purposes of the passage, the chief significance of Goodall’s discovery that chimpanzees use tools was that:

• it was published in the journal Nature.

• it allowed Goodall to publish her first book.

• it led people to think of animals in more human terms.

• it sparked her campaign for forest conservation.

The passage notes that all of the following were achievements in the career of Jane Goodall EXCEPT that:

• she changed humanity’s understanding of itself.

• she witnessed firsthand how nonhuman species use tools.

• she wrote and published many influential books.

• she eventually won over all her detractors.