Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Review

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a…

• Cat

• Muskrat

• Weasel

• Mongoose

The flood that takes Rikki Tikki from his original home to the care of the English family is part of the story’s…

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling action

• Exposition

What can the reader predict from the following passage from the story: “No,” said his mother, “let’s take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn’t really dead.”

• That Rikki Tikki will soon die.

• That Rikki Tikki will probably survive.

• That the mother will become Rikki Tikki’s only friend.

• That Rikki Tikki will meet the challenge of the snakes.

Why do you think the author has the animals in the story speak and think in English?

• The author uses this device to create suspense.

• The author uses this device to fool the reader.

• The author uses this device to make the animal characters seem more human and real.

• The author uses this device to let the reader know that this is an imaginary story.

What can you predict from the following quotation from the story: “Teddy’s safer with that little beast than if he have a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now-”

• The snakes are not really a threat to Teddy.

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

• Rikki Tikki will protect Teddy from a snake attack.

• Rikki Tikki will attack Teddy.

What does it mean, based on the following passage from the story, when a mongooses tail grows “bottlebrushy” “This is a splendid hunting ground” [Rikki Tikki] said and his tail grew bottlebrushy at the thought of it…

• He is happy and excited.

• He is hungry.

• He is lost and afraid.

• He's alert.

The central conflict of the story is between…

• The English family and the snakes.

• Darcy and the cobras.

• Rikki Tikki and the cobras.

• Rikki Tikki and Karait.

What can the reader predict based on the following passage from the story? "...though Rikki Tikki had never met a live Cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that, too, and at the bottom of his cold cart he was afraid."

• Rikki Tikki will never grow up.

• Nag will overcome his fear and defeat Rikki Tikki in battle.

• Rikki Tikki will meet Nag in battle and defeat him.

• Rikki Tikki and Nag will turn away from fighting and settle their differences peacefully.

Nagaina is Nag's…

• Wife

• Father

• Sister

• Nickname

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…

• Confident

• Annoyed

• Jealous

• Defeated