Book Quiz: Animals Feel Emotion

The author’s purpose for writing this book was to ________.

• convince readers that animals

  feel emotions

• explain to readers what

  scientists believe about

  animals

• teach readers how to tell

  whether an animal is

  feeling an emotion

• show readers how animals’

  instincts always drive their

  behavior

What is loyalty?

• feeling love

• showing anger

• animal instinct

• being committed

What did the author mean when

she said, “Echo had to choose

between the herd and her son”?

• Echo’s son was not welcome

  to join the herd.

• Echo didn’t want to go with

  the herd anymore.

• Echo’s son wanted to go in

  a different direction than

  the herd.

• Echo had to either go with

  the herd or stay to help

  her son.

How did Echo’s behavior support

the author’s point of view?

• Echo proved she loved her

  son by risking her own life.

• Echo tried to keep herself

  alive and showed no emotion.

• Echo’s instincts were the

  cause of her behavior

  toward her son.

• Echo ignored her son because

  he was too disabled to live.

Something abandoned has been

• carried along

• treated well

• left behind

• buried

What relationship did Mzee

replace for Owen?

• his mother

• his trainer

• his friend

• his sister

Why do emperor penguins sing?

• to keep track of their mates

• because the female laid

  an egg

• because one is getting tired

  of holding the egg

• to celebrate their arrival

  in their nesting place

How did Kobuk show his love

and devotion to Tika?

• by staying by her side all

  the time

• by gently grooming her

  face and ears

• by warning their owner

  that Tika was very ill

• all of the above

Before Ely figured out how

to stand up,

• he was close to starving

• he caught up with the herd

• Echo left him to survive

  on his own

• he and Echo reached food

  and water

Instincts are

• feelings animals have

  toward other animals

• behaviors animals do

  without being taught

• ways animals feel toward

  humans

• unusual ways to discover food