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WorksheetsMy Life with the Chimpanzees
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
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
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 three options.
chimpanzees enjoy the rain
chimpanzees use sounds to communicate
chimpanzees live in groups and communities
chimpanzees sleep with their mothers until age five or six
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
According to the excerpt from My Life With the Chimpanzees, which word best describes the young Jane Goodall?
bossy
patient
helpless
generous
Which passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees most clearly supports that "patient" describes young Jane Goodall?
During those months of gradual discovery, the chimps very slowly began to realize that I was not so frightening after all.
I carried a little tin trunk up there. In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug.
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.
Instead of writing the information notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder.
Read this passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees.
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
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
Which quotation from My Life With the Chimpanzees best illustrates that it is written from the first-person point of view?
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 brig 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 that 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 a long) quite well though she did miss her mother.
Jane (got a long quite well) though she did miss her mother.
Jane got a long quite well (though she did miss her mother).
Jane got a long quite well though she did (miss her mother).
