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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If the elephants do dance, what are they celebrating?
(a) Dinner.
(b) The end of the elephant hunting season.
(c) Birthdays.
(d) The birth of a baby elephant.

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

3. How old is Kala Nag?
(a) 300.
(b) 55.
(c) 47.
(d) 15.

4. Who grows up to be the namesake for Chapter Four?
(a) Sea Catch.
(b) Kerick.
(c) Matkah.
(d) Kotick.

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Darzee?
(a) A tailorbird.
(b) A little girl.
(c) The tailorbird's wife.
(d) The little boy.

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

11. Who is charmed by Little Toomai?
(a) Kala Nag.
(b) Keddah.
(c) Big Toomai.
(d) Petersen.

12. Who is Sea Vitch?
(a) His father's relative.
(b) A walrus.
(c) A sea cow.
(d) A dolphin king.

13. Little Toomai goes to the elephant dance, even though he is supposed to be watching who?
(a) Petersen.
(b) Kala Nag.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Pudmini.

14. When the elephants dance, it is what?
(a) Raining lightly.
(b) Light.
(c) Dark.
(d) Raining hard.

15. When the seal hunters first see Kotick, what do they think?
(a) That he is a ghost.
(b) He looks are laughable.
(c) That his coat is perfect for their collection.
(d) He isn't scary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Little Toomai does not want to go home while waiting for the elephant dance, even though he is what?

2. What color is Karait?

3. Why are the birds upset when Rikki-Tikki-Tavi meets them?

4. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?

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

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