Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Study Guide / Review

Front

When Teddy first finds Rikki-tikki, the mongoose is _____.

Back

nearly dead after surviving a flood

Front

Predict the relationship between Rikki-tikki and Teddy based on Rikki-tikki's actions.

Back

He tickles Teddy under the chin at the table.

Front

What does Rikki-tikki know is a mongoose’s business in life?

Back

To fight and eat snakes.

Front

What figurative language is used in the sentence: "When he [Nag] had lifted one-third of himself clear off the ground, he stayed, balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind . . ."?

Back

A simile

Front

What is the effect of the figurative language in Part A?

Back

It helps the reader visualize Nag's movement.

Front

If something was done cunningly (as if it was done by Nag and Nagina), it was done

Back

in a deceptive manner

Front

What figurative language device is in the sentence: "Be careful. I am death!"?

Back

metaphor

Front

What does this figurative language reveal to the reader?

Back

Karait is just as deadly as the cobras.

Front

Which foreshadowing detail does Rudyard Kipling include that helps create suspense?

Back

Nag and Nagaina have a nest of eggs that will hatch very soon.

Front

One moment of suspense occurs in the story when

Back

Rikki-tikki finds the cobra eggs.