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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of elephants participate in the dance?
(a) Just baby elephants.
(b) Just girl elephants.
(c) Every kind of elephant.
(d) Just male elephants.

2. What or who is Keddah?
(a) The lead elephant hunter.
(b) The lead elephant.
(c) A snake.
(d) The wild elephant pen.

3. Who takes Little Toomai into the jungle for the elephant dance?
(a) Kala Nag.
(b) Pudmini.
(c) Petersen.
(d) Big Toomai.

4. Who is Chuchundra?
(a) A muskrat.
(b) Another tailorbird.
(c) Another mongoose.
(d) Another snake.

5. How many eggs does Rikki leave the melon patch with?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

6. How does Chapter Six end?
(a) The scolding of the boy.
(b) With the elephants giving the boy a full trumpet salute.
(c) The death of Kala Nag.
(d) Petersen seeing the elephant dance.

7. How do the elephants dance?
(a) Moving forward and backwards.
(b) Moving their trunks in sync with each other.
(c) Standing up and laying down.
(d) Stamping their feet in time with each other.

8. Who is plotting to kill Teddy's family?
(a) The tailorbirds.
(b) Chuchundra.
(c) Nag and Nagaina.
(d) Rikki.

9. What is the age of Sea Catch?
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirty five.

10. What does the White Seal do in the folktale that the old seals speak of?
(a) Be the strongest hunter.
(b) Save the seals.
(c) Have many babies.
(d) Kill the hunters.

11. What is the purpose of the elephant dance?
(a) Attracting more elephants to the herd.
(b) Keeping hunters away.
(c) Mating.
(d) It makes the clearing larger.

12. Who is the head of all the elephant operations?
(a) Kaa.
(b) Pudmini.
(c) Petersen.
(d) Big Toomai.

13. Who also joins Kala Nag at the ballroom for the elephant dance?
(a) Petersen.
(b) The grasshopper.
(c) Pudmini.
(d) Big Toomai.

14. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?
(a) Every winter.
(b) In the spring.
(c) Every fall.
(d) Every summer.

15. How long is the journey to see Sea Vitch?
(a) Three miles.
(b) One mile.
(c) Sixty-six miles.
(d) Six miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi similar to?

2. Who overhears the plot to kill Teddy's family?

3. How many eggs does Rikki find in the melon patch?

4. Who never comes to the lovely beach Kotick finds?

5. Who is Sea Vitch?

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