My Life with the Chimpanzees ELA Quiz

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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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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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.

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Which of the following statements about chimpanzees are true? Choose three options.

• Chimpanzees enjoy the rain.

• Chimpanzees use sounds to communicate.

• Chimpanzees are eager to interact with humans.

• Chimpanzees live in groups and communities.

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

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If the chimp 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.

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Which is the most likely meaning of miserable in the following sentence? Base your answer on the meaning of miserable.

Wearing wet shoes and soggy socks on a long hike can make a person miserable.

• thirsty

• grateful

• talkative

• unhappy

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

• keep a promise

• tell boring jokes

• give people orders

• act without thinking

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According to the excerpt below from My Life With the Chimpanzees, which word best describes the young Jane Goodall?

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.

• bossy

• patient

• helpless

• generous

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Goodall was happy to learn that a large male chimpanzee had visited her camp. Why was this event so

important to Goodall?

• She had begun to feel afraid of the chimpanzees.

• It supported her theory that animals are like humans.

• She had grown weary of traveling back and forth to the Peak.

• It showed that the chimpanzees had begun to accept her presence.

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What makes Goodall’s perspective in My Life With the Chimpanzees unique?

• Few humans keep a daily journal.

• Few humans are interested in African wildlife.

• Few humans would agree that chimpanzees are worth saving.

• Few humans have spent so much time in nature with chimpanzees.

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