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

2. What kind of elephants participate in the dance?
(a) Just male elephants.
(b) Every kind of elephant.
(c) Just girl elephants.
(d) Just baby elephants.

3. What does the White Seal do in the folktale that the old seals speak of?
(a) Kill the hunters.
(b) Save the seals.
(c) Have many babies.
(d) Be the strongest hunter.

4. Who suggests Kotick talk to Sea Vitch?
(a) The old sea lion.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) Sea Catch.
(d) A fellow seal.

5. How many miles does Kotick travel in one day looking for the Sea Cow?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 3.
(c) 300.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are frequents visitors of the setting of Chapter Four?

2. When does Petersen mean when he tells Little Toomai "When you have seen the elephants dance"?

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

4. Who is plotting to kill Teddy's family?

5. Who is apprehensive about the elephant dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Petersen's character.

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

3. Explain the purpose of the elephant dance.

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

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

6. Describe the character of Kala Nag.

7. Describe the relationship between Nag and Nagaina. Who is more practical and how?

8. Why do you think the mother is at first alarmed when she sees Rikki snuggling up to Teddy?

9. Describe the Sea Vitch's appearance.

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

(see the answer keys)

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