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Reading Test Study Guide: Jane Goodall Re-read the story and use your book to answer the

questions. Please answer all questions with complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Turn in all answers with this sheet on Friday morning. Keep in your Reading Folder. This is a homework grade! 1. What is the environment? 2. What does it mean to contribute to something? 3. What does conservation mean? 4. What does mean to be enthusiastic? 5. What is an investigation of the world around us? 6. Find five statements that would be opinions. Write them down. What makes each an opinion and not a fact? 7. Why did Jane Goodall name a fly during one of her speeches? 8. According to the story, how is Lisa Thomas like Goodall? 9. What is an effect (what happens) of respecting all life? 10. How does Goodall probably feel when people ask her how they can help protect animals? Find a sentence in the story that explains your answer. 11. If you were given this statement, Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives what reference book would you use to help prove that this statement is a fact and not an opinion? 12. The title of this selection is Jane Goodalls 10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife. What would also be another good name for this selection? 13. What was one of the first most important events that happened in this selection? 14. How does recycling help the environment overall? Write a sentence from the story that supports your answer. In other words, how do you know this? 15. What is this story mainly about? 16. In the story, look for words like all, most, everything etc. This words signal a generalization. For example, everyone likes summer. A lot of people like summer, but not everyone. Now, find a valid generalization in the story. Write it down. 17. What is most likely the reason the author wrote this story? 18. Goodall ends the selection by talking about the importance of working together and having hope. Why do you think she saved this for last? 19. According to Goodalls views, how are all animals alike? 20. How was Goodall different from her fellow (all the others) scientists?

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