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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. Who also joins Kala Nag at the ballroom for the elephant dance?

2. What or who is Keddah?

3. Little Toomai goes to the elephant dance, even though he is supposed to be watching who?

4. Who kills Nag?

5. Why does Rikki tell Darzee to pretend he is injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Rikki feels about the father and mother.

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

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

4. Describe Petersen's character.

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

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

7. In what ways are Kotick's mom and the girl seal impressed with him at the end of the Chapter Four?

8. Describe the Sea Vitch's appearance.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the monkey people and Kaa. How are they the same? How are they different?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the wives and husbands (animal and human) in Chapter five. How are animals wives portrayed, compared to their husbands? How is the human wife portrayed, compared to her husband? What is Kipling saying with this?

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