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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. How does Clayton and Tarzan save Jane and Esmeralda from a lioness?
(a) Tarzan and Clayton pulls it out of the cabin through a window and Tarzan breaks its neck.
(b) Tarzan and Clayton pulls it out of the cabin through a window and scares it away.
(c) Tarzan shoots the lion with an arrow and Clayton shoots it with a revolver.
(d) Tarzan kills the lion with his knife as Clayton pulls on its tail.

2. In Chapter 5, what does Tarzan do when a lion kills his friend?
(a) Swims to deep water.
(b) Takes his friend’s body up a tree.
(c) Climbs a tree.
(d) Kills a lion.

3. In Chapter 13, what does Tarzan see when he returns to the cabin?
(a) A ship’s boat rowing towards shore.
(b) A ship in the harbor.
(c) Two white people knocking on the cabin door.
(d) A lion attempting to get into the window.

4. What does Tarzan mean in ape language?
(a) Stupid.
(b) White skin.
(c) King.
(d) Human.

5. What happens when Tarzan tries to use his bow in Chapter 11?
(a) He accidentally shoots Kerchak in the arm.
(b) He kills a huge lion.
(c) He is chased by a lion he shoots.
(d) He loses most of his arrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tarzan remain king when he does not want to be king?

2. In Chapter 7, why does Tarzan return to his father’s cabin at the beginning of the chapter?

3. In Chapter 6, how does Tarzan get into his father’s cabin?

4. About how old is Kala?

5. In Chapter 10, what is the woman Tarzan sees at the village of the blacks doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kala’s baby ape die?

2. How does Tarzan become King of the Apes?

3. What is Lord Greystoke told by a crew member and what does he do with this information?

4. How and why does Tarzan kill Tublet?

5. How does Alice lose her memory of her recent past?

6. What does Tarzan see in Chapter 13 when he returns to the cabin from getting clothing?

7. In Chapter 3, what happens when the ship reaches land and what do the Greystokes do immediately?

8. How does Lord Greystoke get killed?

9. Why does Kala worry about her baby and how does Tarzan get his name?

10. How does Tarzan save Clayton’s life two times in Chapter 14?

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