"Rikki Tikki Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling

What happened to Rikki Tikki Tavi to cause him to end up on the garden path?

• his home was destroyed by humans

• a flood washed him out

• his parents kicked him out

• he decided to run away from home

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What did Teddy and his mother do when they found Rikki Tikki?

• took him inside to dry him off

• ran him off because they were afraid of him

• they fed him

• they just ignored him until he left

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It is difficult to frighten Rikki Tikki because he is a mongoose and mongooses are.....

• unaware

• always scared

• lazy

• curious

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What is the motto of Rikki Tikki's family?

• Run and find out

• Stop, look and listen

• Be brave

• Always be helpful

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What does the presence of a mongoose, like Rikki Tikki mean for Nag and Nagaina?

• More competition for food

• Mongooses are a threat to snakes like Nag and Nagaina

• The humans like mongooses better than snakes

• the snakes will have to leave because Rikki Tikki will take over their home

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Which event causes Darzee and his wife to be afraid of Nag and Nagaina?

• the snakes ate one of the bird's babies when it rolled out of the nest

• the snakes threatened to eat the birds if they did not help get rid of Rikki Tikki

• the snakes already killed other birds and will do the same to Darzee and his wife

• the snakes destroyed the bird's nest

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Rikki Tikki seeks the help of who to defeat the cobras?

• the tailorbirds and the muskrat

• the chickens

• the rats

• the cows and the pigs

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How does the author provide characterization of Rikki Tikki when he becomes angry?

• he runs away and hides

• he screeches loudly and foams at the mouth

• his eyes turn red and his tail bushes out

• he attacks whatever or who ever is closest to him when becomes angry

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Which quote provides the reason why Rikki Tikki did not eat Karait after killing him?

• "when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose"

• "If Rikki Tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing that fighting Nag"

• "That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki Tikki was just about to eat him up fron the tail, after the custom of his family...."

• "It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth..."

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Which character provided Rikki Tikki with this warning "Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes"?

• Chuchundra the muskrat

• Darzee the tailorbird

• the cat

• Teddy

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