Elephant Study Quiz

The phrase "hooked on elephants" is used in paragraphs 7 and 20 to show that Katy:

• has developed a passion for studying elephants.

• has moved onto studying other social animals.

• is interested in studying all social animals.

• will study other animals similar to elephants.

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Why does the author include paragraphs 1 and 2 in the passage?

• To explain that elephants have more ways to communicate with each other than humans

• To connect known information about the social behaviors of elephants with the new discovery of elephant talk

• To prove that some elephants prefer living alone to living in a herd

• To describe how the social behaviors of female elephants are different from those of male elephants

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Based on the passage, which statement best explains why Katy Payne will continue to study elephants?

• She is working with other scientists who study elephants.

• She travels to Oregon and Kenya to do research.

• She researches in the laboratory and the wild.

• She is in the early stages of learning about elephant talk.

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Which two quotations best support the answer in Part A?

• “‘Elephants may not have been the only interesting animals in the zoo, but I had eyes, or ears, only for them. . . .’” (paragraph 5)

• “On her way home from that first experience, she realized how little she had learned about elephant talk.” (paragraph 7)

• “There she teamed up with two other scientists, who knew each of the several hundred elephants of the park.” (paragraph 13)

• “To find out whether the guess was right, the team reversed procedure.” (paragraph 17)

• “The curiosity and hard work of Katy Payne has led to the beginnings of an understanding of how elephants talk to one another.” (paragraph 20)

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Based on the passage, which two factors are related to when elephants do most of their calling?

• the distance between elephant herds and other animals

• the volume and direction of sounds

• the number of elephants and their newborn calves

• the temperatures of the ground and air

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What do the first picture and the information in the passage best help the reader understand?

• the amount of time Katy spent recording elephant sounds

• when Katy became interested in elephant sounds

• how Katy records elephant sounds

• the reason Katy chose to study elephant sounds

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Which two statements best describe how Katy Payne's research at the zoo led to her discovery in Kenya?

• She spent lots of time studying the elephants in the zoo in Portland.

• She was interested in the communication of other animals.

• She felt sound that humans could not hear.

• She learned about infrasound with the help of other researchers.

• She teamed up with other scientists in Kenya.

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Part A: What are two main ideas from 'Elephant Talk'?

• Elephants talk to one another for many reasons.

• Elephants in the wild talk just as those that live in zoos.

• Scientists used different methods to understand elephant talk.

• Elephants only talk at certain times of the day.

• Scientists studied birds and elephant talk in the wild.

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Part B

Which two quotations best support the answer to Part A?

• Elephants are highly social animals. In Africa they live together in groups of related females with their calves, often led by the grandmother of the family.

• She also learned from the keepers, who told her about some of the things elephants had done.

• Could it be that the elephants were talking in sounds that her ears couldn’t hear?

• By watching elephants while recording their sounds, the team was able to figure out several different calls.

• There’s a let’s-go call used by an elephant that seemed to want the family to get moving.

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