WorksheetsMy Life With The Chimpanzees
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 22mins
According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, 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
Which of the following animals does Goodall encounter in the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees? Choose three options.
horse
buffalo
leopard
baboon
hippopotamus
According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, 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.
According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, which of the following statements about chimpanzees are true? Choose two options.
Chimpanzees enjoy the rain.
Chimpanzees have one mate for life.
Chimpanzees eat mostly small animals.
Chimpanzees use sounds to communicate.
Chimpanzees live in groups and communities.
According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, 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.
If the leopard 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.
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
An impetuous person is most likely to do which of the following?
keep a promise
tell boring jokes
give people orders
act without thinking
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, which word best describes the young Jane Goodall?
bossy
patient
helpless
generous
Part A Answer: Jane Goodall is patient.
Part B Which passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees most clearly supports the answer to Part A?
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.
I carried a little tin trunk up there. In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug. Then, when I got tired from a long trek to another valley, I could make a drink in the middle of the day. I kept a blanket up there, too….
After supper I would get out the little notebook in which I had scribbled everything I had seen while watching the chimps during the day. I would settle down to write it all legibly into my journal….
Instead of writing the information in notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder. Then I could keep my eyes on the chimps all the time. By the end of the day there was so much typing to be done that I found I couldn’t do it all myself.
Read this passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees.
"Suddenly a chimp charged straight toward me. His hair bristled with rage. At the last minute he swerved and ran off. I stayed still. Two more chimps charged nearby. Then, suddenly, I realized I was alone again. All the chimps had gone."
What does Goodall achieve by including this passage in her memoir?
She shows that chimps have many human traits
She shows that the chimps had accepted her.
She shows that chimps can be aggressive creatures.
She shows that her time among the chimps was a failure
In the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, 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.
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.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A Which characteristic does My Life With the Chimpanzees share with other memoirs?
It describes a variety of characters.
It quotes from authoritative sources.
It is written from the first-person point of view.
It is written from the third-person point of view.
Part A answer: Like other memoirs, My Live With the Chimpanzees is written from the first-person point of view.
Part B Which quotation from My Life With the Chimpanzees best illustrates the answer to Part A?
July 16, 1960, was a day I shall remember all my life.
Dominic was a wonderful cook and great company.
Flo came very often to camp looking for bananas.
Then, in 1964, Mike took over. He did this by using his brain.
Why is My Life With the Chimpanzees considered a memoir?
It describes nature.
It has more than one author.
It can be used in place of a science book.
It describes key moments in the author’s life.
Goodall had more than one purpose for writing My Life With the Chimpanzees. Which of the following best identifies those purposes?
She wanted to express her feelings about chimpanzees and describe them in colorful terms.
She wanted to share facts about chimpanzees and tell the story of how she learned those facts.
She wanted to entertain readers with stories about chimpanzees and brag about her findings.
She wanted to explain how she became a scientist and persuade others to study chimpanzees.
What is the meaning of the suffix -able?
guilty of
hoping for
tending to
asking for
Which of the following is the best definition of the word excitable? Base your answer on your knowledge of the suffix -able.
easily excited
excited again
never excited
excited inside
Which sentence correctly uses a comma?
In 1960, Jane Goodall first entered Gombe Park.
In 1960 Jane Goodall, first entered Gombe Park.
In 1960 Jane Goodall first entered, Gombe Park.
In 1960 Jane Goodall first entered Gombe, Park.
Which sentence correctly uses a dash?
Jane saw—that the camp had been disturbed and all the bananas were gone!
Jane saw that the camp—had been disturbed and all the bananas were gone!
Jane saw that the camp had been—disturbed and all the bananas were gone!
Jane saw that the camp had been disturbed—and all the bananas were gone!
Which sentence correctly uses parentheses?
Jane (got along) quite well though she did miss her mother.
Jane (got along quite well) though she did miss her mother.
Jane got along quite well (though she did miss her mother).
Jane got along quite well though she did (miss her mother).
