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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nagaina hide her eggs?
(a) In the tree.
(b) In the grass.
(c) The melon patch.
(d) The flower garden.

2. In the jungle, huge clearings are called what?
(a) The ballrooms of snakes.
(b) The never ballroom.
(c) Elephant ballrooms.
(d) Deserted ballrooms.

3. How many miles does Kotick travel in one day looking for the Sea Cow?
(a) 30.
(b) 300.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 3.

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

5. Who finds Rikki-Tikki-Tavi at the beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) A boy named Teddy.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A human father.
(d) A cobra.

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

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

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

9. How many seals spend their time at Novastoshnah in the summer?
(a) 20,000.
(b) Between 40,000 and 50,000.
(c) About 15,000.
(d) Between 4,000 and 5,000.

10. Kotick is disturbed by the sight of what at the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) The clubbing and skinning of his friends.
(b) Other seal families arriving at Novastoshnah for the summer.
(c) Halibut.
(d) The girl seals.

11. Who chases Nag and Nagaina away from the birds?
(a) Chuchundra.
(b) Bagheera.
(c) Rikki.
(d) Teddy.

12. How long does the elephant performance last?
(a) Two minutes.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two hours.
(d) The entire night.

13. What is the name of the big black cobra that is responsible for the tailorbirds distress?
(a) Tag.
(b) Chuchundra.
(c) Nagaina.
(d) Nag.

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

15. Who is apprehensive about the elephant dance?
(a) The superstitious native men.
(b) Petersen.
(c) Pudmini.
(d) Kala Nag.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the elephants dance?

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

3. At what setting does Chapter Four start?

4. Who grows up to be the namesake for Chapter Four?

5. Who is the first character Kotick sees after he finds the new country and arrives back at Novastoshnah?

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