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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the elephant hunters get paid their wages?
(a) At the beginning of the season.
(b) Only if their elephant is a good one.
(c) At the end of the working season.
(d) After they get each elephant.

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

3. What is the name of Sea Catch's wife?
(a) Kerick.
(b) Kotick.
(c) Novastoshnah.
(d) Matkah.

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

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

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

7. Sea Catch has scars on what part of his body?
(a) On his belly.
(b) From his nose to his tail fin.
(c) Just around his fin.
(d) Just around his tail.

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

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

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

11. At what setting does Chapter Four start?
(a) The jungle.
(b) Novastoshnah.
(c) Off the coast of Hawaii.
(d) In the United States mainland.

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

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

14. Who kills Nag?
(a) Teddy's father.
(b) Rikki.
(c) Chuchundra.
(d) Teddy's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi similar to?

2. Who suggests Kotick talk to Sea Vitch?

3. What is the name of the big black cobra that is responsible for the tailorbirds distress?

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

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

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