MONGOOSE COBRAS

LIT
ELEMENTS
COMPREHENSION
VOCAB.
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Question 1 - 10
What does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
know is a mongooses
business?
Answer 1 10
To fight and
kill snakes
Question 1 - 20
Where are
mongooses
originally from?
Answer 1 20
Question 1 - 30
In addition to snakes,
what are three other
animals mongooses are
known to kill.
Answer 1 30
Rats, pigs, lambs,
chickens, puppies,
kittens, lizards, geese
Question 1 - 40
What adjective does Rudyard Kipling
use to describe Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?

He is a ______________ mongoose.
Answer 1 40
Curious

He is a curious mongoose.
Question 1 - 50
What is the life
expectancy of a
mongoose?
Answer 1 50
6-10 years
Question 2 - 10
Who is terrorizing the
birds in the garden?
Answer 2 10
Nag & Nagaina
Question 2 - 20
Why are the
cobras afraid of
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?
Answer 2 20
Rikki is a mongoose
and cobras are prey
for mongooses.
Question 2 - 30
What is prey
for a cobra?
Answer 2 30
Bird eggs, other small rodents,
other snakes, lizards
Question 2 - 40
Cobras are known as the
dancing snake.
Use your schema to
explain why.
Answer 2 40
Cobras are known to raise from
baskets and sway as if dancing
when someone is playing Indian
music on a flute.
Question 2 - 50
What is a male
cobra called?
Answer 2 50
King Cobra
Question 3 - 10
What is the
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
mostly about?
Answer 3 10
A mongoose
that helps a boy
and his family

Question 3 - 20
What is the general
setting of Rikki-
Tikki-Tavi?
Answer 3 20
Question 3 - 30
Describe the
main conflict in
this story.
Answer 3 30
Nag and Nagaina are trying
to kill the birds eggs and
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi must rid the
garden of all cobras.
Question 3 - 40
When Rikki-Tikki tickles
Teddy under the chin at
the table you can
predict
Answer 3 40
The boys will have a
friendly relationship
and the Rikki will not
bite him.
Question 3 - 50
Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head
and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he
was five feet long from tongue to tail.

This passage creates
_______ in the story.
Answer 3 50
Suspense

Question 4 - 10
Who is Chuchundra and
why did the author
include him in the story?
Answer 4 10
Chuchundra is the
muskrat afraid of
nearly everything
especially Nag.
Question 4 - 20
What was one thing
Teddys mom was
afraid of with having
Rikki in the house?
Answer 4 20
She was afraid to have
him sleep in the same
room as Teddy.
Question 4 - 30
Why/how does Rikki-
Tikki-Tavi get separated
from his family?
Answer 4 30
He gets carried
away in a flood.
Question 4 - 40
Why is Rikki so annoyed
with Darzee when he sang
about Rikki killing Nag?
Answer 4 40
Rikki didnt want
Nagaina to come
and attack.
Question 4 - 50
How does Rikki-Tikki get
Teddy out of harms way
when Nagaina has trapped
the family on the veranda?
Answer 4 50
Rikki taunts her with her last
egg, a king cobra baby egg,
so that she will turn around
and Teddys dad will have
time to grab him.
Question 5 - 10
One necessary or
basic part of a whole

Question 5 - 10
One necessary or
basic part of a whole

Answer 5 10
element
Question 5 - 20
current; modern
Answer 5 20
contemporary
Question 5 - 30
power or sway that
affects people of things

Answer 5 30
influence
Question 5 - 40
something
constructed or built,
such as a building

Answer 5 40
structure
Question 5 - 50
to find or name the
characteristics, nature,
or qualities of someone
or something
Answer 5 50
identify