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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the red brick house Jane lived in with Danny, her mother, and Judy?

2. What kind of hunt does Jane say made her sick when she participated in it?

3. Dr. Doolittle could talk to __________.

4. What does Jane watch the chicken doing?

5. What does Jane say there was little of during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Goodall say she does as an ethologist?

2. How does Goodall say she first became interested in animals?

3. What did Tinbergen find out about seagulls?

4. Why does Jane know no languages other than English?

5. What did Jane do once she was back in London?

6. What did Jane think of school?

7. How did Jane ignite her passion for exotic animals as a youngster without ever seeing them?

8. How did Jane learn to ride a horse?

9. What does Goodall say was the process of getting to learn so much about chimps?

10. What did Jane learn about Germans when she went to visit the country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the animals in the book and examine the myths that surround that animal in popular culture. How did these myths develop? What is the truth behind the myth?

Essay Topic 2

Aside from the animals, what problems did Jane have to cope with in Africa? How did she cope with these problems? What does the fact that Jane never gave up say about her character?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Jane as the person she was at the beginning of the book to the person she is at the end. What did Jane hope to achieve at the beginning of the book? What events changed Jane's ideas about life? Did Jane achieve her goals by the end of the book?

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