Jane Goodall: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees Goodall started Roots & Shoots, a program for young people to help animals and the environment Goodall arrived at Gombe in Tanzania to study chimpanzees Goodall saw a chimpanzee use a twig as a tool to catch termites
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Goodall started Roots & Shoots, a program for young people to help animals and the environment Goodall saw a chimpanzee use a twig as a tool to catch termites Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees Goodall arrived at Gombe in Tanzania to study chimpanzees
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees."

   1977 1991 1987 1934
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Goodall arrived at Gombe in Tanzania to study chimpanzees." Later: "She founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees."

   17 43 16 18
5. Timeline math About how old was Goodall in 1960?

   31 38 21 26
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "observation" mean?

   carefully watching something to learn about it a substance that trains the body to fight a disease an injury to the skin caused by heat, chemicals or electricity a set of step-by-step instructions for solving a problem
7. Character traits Which word best describes Jane Goodall?

   careless lazy bored patient
8. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Goodall was patient?

   She measured X-ray patterns by hand for months to be sure her results were right. As a child she dreamed of flying and went on to study aerospace engineering. She sat quietly in the forest for months before the chimpanzees let her come close. She looked for a faster way to cover burns so that patients would heal with fewer scars.
9. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Jane Goodall the life and work of Katherine Johnson
10. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

    by comparing two people as a list of steps to follow from most important to least important event in time order, from earlier events to later ones
11. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to explain how to do an experiment to tell a funny story to show that her work still matters today to list every prize the person won

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