Rikki Tikki Test Review

What kind of animal is Rikki-Tikki?

• Muskrat

• Mongoose

At the beginning of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” which characteristic does Rikki-Tikki display as soon as he has warmed up?

• Laziness

• Curiosity

What prediction can you make based on your prior knowledge and this quotation from “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”? “Teddy's safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now.”

• Rikki-Tikki will fail to protect Teddy from a snake attack

• Rikki-Tikki will protect Teddy from a snake attack

In which sentence about “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is revived used correctly?

• After Rikki-Tikki revived, he thought how lucky he was to be alive.

• Teddy's family was revived to know that Nagaina was dead.

I fear cobras immensely, I don't even like to see pictures of them. What does immensely mean in this sentence?

• A little bit

• A great deal (a lot)

Someone who needs consolation is probably

• Happy

• Sad

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 die soon

• Rikki Tikki will survive

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

Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss.

• A snake will appear

• Darzee will be killed

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 defeat Nag in battle

• Nag will defeat Rikki Tikki in battle

The central conflict in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is between

• Rikki Tikki and Nag and Nagaina

• Rikki Tikki and Karait