Rikki-tikki-tavi R.3.1/V.1.3

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was a:

• mountain lion

• mole

• mongoose

• man

She​ (a)   her father into thinking she was going to the football game, when in reality, she was going to a party.

• deceived
• calamity
• baffled
• abused

In Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the big male cobra was named:

• Darzee

• Nag

• Nagaina

• Teddy

When a mongoose's eyes grow​ (a)   it means they are angry.

• red
• green
• blue
• out of their head

If Nag the cobra would have killed Teddy, it would have been considered a ​ (a)   for the family.

• calamity
• baffled
• barbarism
• folklore

"She crept up behind him as he was talking, to make an end of him." To make an end of him is an example of what type of figurative language?

• idiom

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

"He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina..." What type of figurative language is used in this line from Rikki-tikki-tavi?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

​ "Well! It may be some​ consolation to you when you're dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy." The best meaning for CONSOLATION is:

• having or showing good judgement

• something that makes a person feel less disappointed or sad

• to a great or vast extent

• to develop something for farming

"Rikki-tikki was bounding all around Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals." What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• deceive

"Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death." What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom