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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hangs on the walls of Hope's home at the end of the story?
(a) Her own watercolors.
(b) Photos of chimps.
(c) Usman's drawings.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. Who greets Hope when she gets rescued after Almicar dies?
(a) Mallabar.
(b) Mr. Doblin.
(c) Ian.
(d) John.

3. Whose ankle gets injured during an escape attempt?
(a) Hope's.
(b) Vail's.
(c) Mallabar's.
(d) Clovis.'

4. What do illnesses, nervous breakdowns and injuries show?
(a) Cusp catastrophes.
(b) Topological studies.
(c) Cup catastrophes.
(d) Antilogical catastrophes.

5. What kind of medication did John take to keep working?
(a) Amphetamines.
(b) Heroine.
(c) Cough medicine.
(d) Marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hope, what is the study of abrupt change?

2. Who was taken back to Grosso Arvore after rescue?

3. How many southern chimps remain after Mr. Jeb's death and after a chimpanzee fight?

4. After the death of Mr. Jeb, which southern chimp seems to become an outcast?

5. Which important character witnesses the truth in Hope's theory.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are John's answers to life's three important questions?

2. Where does Hope live at the end of the novel? Describe her home.

3. According to Hope, how is life like calculus?

4. What is Hope's relationship with Mallabar at the end of the novel?

5. What is Hopes catastrophe theory? She says there are seven types, but only addresses two. Briefly discuss the difference in the two she outlines.

6. What discrepancies does Hope learn about Usman's past and how does she learn them?

7. How does Hope learn of a night-time chimpanzee fight and what does she discover with the information?

8. What explanation was given to Hope about the death of Usman and why does she believe it?

9. Describe Ian and Hope's escape from their captors.

10. How does Hope's discovery among the chimps show her that she and John are not so different? What is it that they have in common?

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