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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) The end of the elephant hunting season.
(b) The birth of a baby elephant.
(c) Birthdays.
(d) Dinner.

2. Who is Sea Catch?
(a) An old seal.
(b) An old fisherman.
(c) A fish.
(d) A hawk.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Who are frequents visitors of the setting of Chapter Four?
(a) Tourists.
(b) Fishermen and seals.
(c) Trappers.
(d) Hunters.

9. How does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi end up in Segowlee?
(a) He is cast out by his family.
(b) Someone kidnaps him.
(c) A flood forces him out of his home.
(d) A cobra scares him away.

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

11. 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) Kill the hunters.
(d) Have many babies.

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

13. Who never comes to the lovely beach Kotick finds?
(a) Young male seals.
(b) Men.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Other seal families.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a holluschickie?

2. Who is Darzee?

3. Who does Kala Nag especially look out for?

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

5. Who teaches Kotick the ways of the sea?

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