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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chapter Six end?
(a) The scolding of the boy.
(b) The death of Kala Nag.
(c) Petersen seeing the elephant dance.
(d) With the elephants giving the boy a full trumpet salute.

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

3. Who is the first character Kotick sees after he finds the new country and arrives back at Novastoshnah?
(a) Kerick Botterin and his son, Patalamon.
(b) The little girl seal.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

4. Who takes Little Toomai into the jungle for the elephant dance?
(a) Petersen.
(b) Pudmini.
(c) Kala Nag.
(d) Big Toomai.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Nag killed?

5. How many seals come with Kotick at the end of Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Kotick's white coat works to his advantage.

2. What does it mean that Rikki saves Teddy from the first snake before his father can?

3. How is the danger of the cobras foreshadowed early on in Chapter Five?

4. Even though Kotick is doing something for the good of others when he is searching, how do the rest of the seals view him?

5. Explain the differences between Little Toomai and Big Toomai.

6. Why is Little Toomai able to see the dance and not the adults?

7. What do you think Sea Catch's scars from fighting for his land for his children represent?

8. How does the theme of the importance of animals show up when Rikki overhears Nag and his wife?

9. How do the other seals view Kotick in the beginning of Chapter Four and how does that change in the end of Chapter Four?

10. How do the lives of the native elephant workers differ from those British men in Chapter Six?

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