My Life With the Chimpanzees Selection Test

To learn to make chimpanzee tools

To join a chimpanzee family

To study chimpanzee behavior

To work as a chimpanzee doctor

a. The views were excellent.

d. Silence helped her think and write.

c. Chimps were friendly.

b. Trees provided plenty of food.

Chimpanzees can make and use tools.

Chimpanzees give each other names.

Chimpanzees eat mostly fruits and nuts.

Chimpanzees can learn to write.

It made a loud cry

It was captured

It can no longer be seen

It moved at a high speed

Talkative

Grateful

Unhappy

Thirsty

Keep a promise

Give people orders

Tell boring jokes

Act without thinking

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.

It showed that the chimpanzees had begun to accept her presence.

It supported her theory that animals are like humans.

She had begun to feel afraid of the chimpanzees.

She had grown weary of traveling back and forth to the Peak.

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.

It is written from the first-person point of view.

It describes a variety of characters.

It is written from the third-person point of view.

It quotes from authoritative sources.

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.

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.

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 explain how she became a scientist and persuade others to study chimpanzees.

She wanted to entertain readers with stories about chimpanzees and brag about her findings.

guilty of

gardenful for

tending to

hoping for

excited again

easily excited

excited inside

never excited

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.

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!

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).