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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the name Kala Nag mean?
(a) Old.
(b) Black snake.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Driver.
2. What is the purpose of the elephant dance?
(a) It makes the clearing larger.
(b) Mating.
(c) Keeping hunters away.
(d) Attracting more elephants to the herd.
3. What or who is Keddah?
(a) A snake.
(b) The wild elephant pen.
(c) The lead elephant.
(d) The lead elephant hunter.
4. Who kills Nagaina?
(a) Shere Khan.
(b) Rikki.
(c) Teddy's father.
(d) Darzee.
5. When do the elephant hunters get paid their wages?
(a) Only if their elephant is a good one.
(b) After they get each elephant.
(c) At the end of the working season.
(d) At the beginning of the season.
6. Sea Catch has scars on what part of his body?
(a) On his belly.
(b) Just around his tail.
(c) Just around his fin.
(d) From his nose to his tail fin.
7. How many miles does Kotick travel in one day looking for the Sea Cow?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 30.
(c) 300.
(d) 3.
8. Who is Chuchundra?
(a) Another tailorbird.
(b) Another mongoose.
(c) A muskrat.
(d) Another snake.
9. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?
(a) Every fall.
(b) Every winter.
(c) In the spring.
(d) Every summer.
10. How does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi end up in Segowlee?
(a) Someone kidnaps him.
(b) A flood forces him out of his home.
(c) He is cast out by his family.
(d) A cobra scares him away.
11. Who is the first character Kotick sees after he finds the new country and arrives back at Novastoshnah?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) The little girl seal.
(d) Kerick Botterin and his son, Patalamon.
12. Who is Sea Vitch?
(a) A dolphin king.
(b) A sea cow.
(c) His father's relative.
(d) A walrus.
13. Who is the head of all the elephant operations?
(a) Big Toomai.
(b) Petersen.
(c) Kaa.
(d) Pudmini.
14. What is the name of the big black cobra that is responsible for the tailorbirds distress?
(a) Chuchundra.
(b) Tag.
(c) Nagaina.
(d) Nag.
15. Why is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi allowed to snuggle with the little boy in his new home?
(a) The mother insists on it.
(b) For warmth.
(c) Because he is considered a good guard against snakes.
(d) Father doesn't want the boy to cry.
Short Answer Questions
1. What doesn't Kotick know about the Sea Cow?
2. In the jungle, huge clearings are called what?
3. Why is Kotick seeking out Sea Vitch and Sea Cow?
4. Who is apprehensive about the elephant dance?
5. Who also joins Kala Nag at the ballroom for the elephant dance?
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