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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. Sea Catch has scars on what part of his body?
(a) From his nose to his tail fin.
(b) Just around his fin.
(c) Just around his tail.
(d) On his belly.

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

3. Who suggests Kotick talk to Sea Vitch?
(a) A fellow seal.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) The old sea lion.
(d) Sea Catch.

4. How is Nag killed?
(a) By a bite.
(b) He is poisoned.
(c) He is carried off and dropped in the sea.
(d) By shotgun.

5. Why are the birds upset when Rikki-Tikki-Tavi meets them?
(a) They don't know what happens to their baby.
(b) They are afraid of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
(c) Their baby is crying.
(d) Their baby is gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?

2. Little Toomai goes to the elephant dance, even though he is supposed to be watching who?

3. How big is the cobra?

4. Who is Sea Catch?

5. When does Petersen mean when he tells Little Toomai "When you have seen the elephants dance"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the danger of the cobras foreshadowed early on in Chapter Five?

2. In what ways is Kotick more mature than the other seals his age?

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

4. How do the other seals view Kotick in the beginning of Chapter Four and how does that change in the end of Chapter Four?

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

6. How does the theme of the importance of animals show up when Rikki overhears Nag and his wife?

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

8. Explain the differences between Little Toomai and Big Toomai.

9. Describe the Sea Vitch's appearance.

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

(see the answer keys)

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