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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. What is a holluschickie?
(a) A bachelor seal.
(b) A bachelorette seal.
(c) A mother seal.
(d) A father seal.

2. Who fears Rikki is dead?
(a) Only Teddy.
(b) Just the family.
(c) Darzee and the family.
(d) Just Darzee.

3. What does the name Kala Nag mean?
(a) Black snake.
(b) Driver.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Old.

4. Who is Big Toomai?
(a) Another snake.
(b) Kala Nag's elephant.
(c) Another elephant.
(d) Kala Nag's driver.

5. Who praises Rikki for saving Teddy?
(a) Teddy's mother.
(b) Nagaina.
(c) Darzee.
(d) Teddy's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nagaina hide her eggs?

2. When the seal hunters first see Kotick, what do they think?

3. Why is Kotick seeking out Sea Vitch and Sea Cow?

4. What does the White Seal do in the folktale that the old seals speak of?

5. What does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi think of being a house mongoose?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why is Darzee singing a mournful song at the end of Chapter Five?

2. Describe how the family reacts to snakes.

3. What does it mean that Rikki saves Teddy from the first snake before his father can?

4. How does Little Toomai prepare for the possibility of an elephant dance?

5. Explain the purpose of the elephant dance.

6. In what ways are Kotick's mom and the girl seal impressed with him at the end of the Chapter Four?

7. Why is Little Toomai able to see the dance and not the adults?

8. Why do you think the mother is at first alarmed when she sees Rikki snuggling up to Teddy?

9. Even though Kotick is doing something for the good of others when he is searching, how do the rest of the seals view him?

10. How is Kipling's theme of animals being more innocent than humans resurface in Chapter Four?

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