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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who teaches Kotick the ways of the sea?
(a) His father.
(b) Kerick.
(c) His mother.
(d) Patalamon.

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

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

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

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

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

7. How many seals come with Kotick at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Only his family.
(b) Threats.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Only the little girl seal.

8. What does the name Kala Nag mean?
(a) Driver.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Black snake.
(d) Old.

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

10. How does Kotick get other seals to come to the new summer vacation place that he finds?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Shouts of joy.

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

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

13. Why is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi allowed to snuggle with the little boy in his new home?
(a) Father doesn't want the boy to cry.
(b) For warmth.
(c) Because he is considered a good guard against snakes.
(d) The mother insists on it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Kotick seeking out Sea Vitch and Sea Cow?

3. What doesn't Kotick know about the Sea Cow?

4. How long is the journey to see Sea Vitch?

5. Who is the head of all the elephant operations?

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