Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Study Guide / Review

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

• A wounded from battling Nag in the garden

• B too young to feed himself properly

• C tired from the long journey to their bungalow

• D nearly dead after surviving a flood

You can predict that Rikki-tikki and Teddy will have a friendly relationship when Rikki-tikki

• He tickles Teddy under the chin at the table

• causes Teddy’s mother to worry that he may bite

• C visits the family’s garden after his first night

• D realizes that Nag and Nagaina are a danger to the family

Which of the following does Rikki-tikki know is a mongoose’s business in life?

• A to make peace with all animals

• B to fight and eat snakes

• C to eat and nap all day long

• D to become a garden mongoose

(a) What figurative language is used in the sentence below? "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 . . ."

• A simile

• B metaphor

• C personification

• D idiom

(b) PART B: What is the effect of the figurative language in Part A?

• A It shows that Nag is about to attack.

• B It helps the reader visualize Nag's movement.

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

• in a deceptive manner

• with a lack of caution

• without consequences

• in a ridiculous way

What figurative language device is in the following sentence? "Be careful. I am death!" It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

What does this figurative language reveal to the reader?

• Karait wants to have a funeral for a dead mongoose.

• Karait is friends with the cobras.

• Karait is just as deadly as the cobras.

• Karait plans to bite Teddy.

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

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

• Chuchundra the muskrat is afraid to run into the middle of a room.

• Nag ate an egg that fell out of Darzee and his wife’s nest.

• Teddy’s father believes that Rikki-tikki would never harm Teddy.

One moment of suspense occurs in the story when

• Rikki-tikki finds the cobra eggs.

• Teddy’s father reads a newspaper.

• Darzee sings a song.

• The family eats dinner.