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The Rise of the Planet of the Apes opens tomorrow, just a few weeks after the documentary Project Nim, a slightly different take on simian intelligence. Apes centers on Caesar, a super-intelligent chimp raised by James Franco, who initiates a monkey uprising; Nim follows “Nim Chimpsky,” an ape raised more or less as a human child as part of a language-acquisition study. Caesar leads a revolution, Nim hangs out with a bunch of hippies, and both have a fair amount in common with Travis, the “most famous ape in America.” On the occasion of the wordily named The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we ask: Can you tell their stories apart? Let’s see! (Multiple answers can be correct for any given question.)
