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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What or who is Keddah?

2. How do the elephants dance?

3. When the elephants dance, it is what?

4. What is the purpose of the elephant dance?

5. Kotick is disturbed by the sight of what at the beginning of Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. How does Little Toomai prepare for the possibility of an elephant dance?

6. Describe the Sea Vitch's appearance.

7. Explain why is Darzee singing a mournful song at the end of Chapter Five?

8. Describe the character of Kala Nag.

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

10. Explain the purpose of the elephant dance.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kipling illustrate the carelessness of youth in Chapter two? In what ways does Mowgli's behavior exhibit that?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Mowgli as the protagonist of the stories. Define protagonist, and compare/contrast his character with the antagonist, Shere Khan. Their conflict is at the center of the story, but what makes the reader sympathetic to Mowgli?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the relationship between Rikki and the snakes in Chapter five. Be sure to give specific examples of how they help or hurt each other. Do you think they have this relationship is the family never takes Rikki in?

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