"Rikki Tikki Tavi" Selection Test Review

After Teddy’s father beats the dead Karait, Rikki-tikki thinks, “What is the use of that? . . . I have settled it all.” This thought shows that Rikki-tikki feels

• proud

• annoyed

• jealous

• defeated

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Using prior knowledge and the information contained in the following passage from “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” what can you predict will happen?

Though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose’s business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that, too, and at the bottom of his cold heart he was afraid.

• Rikki-tikki will return to his mother and again eat dead cobras.

• Nag will defeat Rikki-tikki in battle.

• Rikki-tikki will defeat Nag in battle.

• Rikki-tikki and Nag will settle their differences peacefully.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

During what part of the plot do Nag and Nagaina talk about their plan?

• during the climax

• during the falling action

• during the rising action

• during the exposition

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The climax of “Rikki-tikki-tavi” occurs when

• Rikki-tikki saves Teddy from Karait’s attack.

• Rikki-tikki fights with Nag

• Rikki-tikki fights with Nagaina.

• Rikki-tikki makes sure another cobra never enters the garden.

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CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Rikki-tikki’s main helper in his fight with Nagaina is

• Darzee

• Darzee's wife

• Teddy

• Teddy's father

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

What information about snakes does the reader not learn from “Rikki-tikki-tavi”?

• A snake’s eyes never change their expression no matter what the snake is thinking.

• If a bird looks into a snake’s eyes, the bird will become frightened and unable to move.

• The bite of a mongoose will kill a snake.

• Snakes’ eggs are enclosed in a shell.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which of the following statements best describes Rikki-tikki’s character?

• He is cautious and loyal.

• He is brave and loyal.

• He is bloodthirsty and loyal.

• He is loving and shy.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Someone who needs consolation is probably

• happy

• puzzled

• sad

• confident

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following sentences from “Rikki-tikki-tavi” contains an action verb?

• A. “All mongooses are like that.”

• “There are more things to find out about in this house.”

• He spent all that day roaming over the house.

• It was a large garden, only half cultivated.

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

Read the following quotation from “Rikki-tikki-tavi.” Then, based on the quotation and your prior knowledge, choose the most likely outcome from the choices below.

“No,” said his mother; “let’s take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn’t really dead.”

• Rikki-tikki will soon die.

• Rikki-tikki will survive.

• Rikki-tikki will survive and attack the boy’s mother.

• The mother will become Rikki-tikki’s only friend.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1