Rikki Tikki Tavi Plot
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a young mongoose, goes to live in Teddy’s family’s garden in India.
a) This is exposition
b) This is rising action
c) This is falling action
d) This is resolution
a) This is exposition
Rikki Tikki fighting Nagaina is an example of which conflict type?
a) Individual vs. Nature
b) Individual vs. Society
c) Individual vs. Individual
d) Individual vs. Self
c) Individual vs. Individual
“Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead—dong!” (p. 27) This sentence contains an example of:
a) Hyperbole
b) Onomatopoeia
c) Simile
d) Metaphor
b) Onomatopoeia
Which word has a negative connotation?
a) Grin
b) Slimy
c) Happy
d) Appreciate
b) Slimy
The family is forever grateful that Rikki Tikki saved them from the evil cobras. Which part of the plot is this?
a) The exposition
b) The resolution
c) Falling Action
d) Initiating Event
b) The resolution
The cobras in Rikki Tikki trying to harm Teddy, the son of the family, is an example of which conflict type?
a) Individual vs. Society
b) Individual vs. Nature
c) Individual vs. Individual
d) Individual vs. Technology
b) Individual vs. Nature
Nag is everywhere, Rikki-tikki.” (p. 21) This sentence contains an example of:
a) Hyperbole
b) Irony
c) Personification
d) Onomatopoeia
a) Hyperbole
“Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.”
Which definition from above fits the underlined word in the sentence?
a) Flowering shrubs
b) A dusty pink color
c) Moved upward
d) Increased in value
c) Moved upward
Which of the following takes place in the rising action of Rikki Tikki?
a) Rikki Tikki is washed away in a flood.
b) Rikki Tikki emerges from the cobra hole in victory.
c) Rikki Tikki finds the cobra eggs and destroys all but one.
d) Darzee sings "death song" in honor of Rikki Tikki.
c) Rikki Tikki finds the cobra eggs and destroys all but one.
Darzee deciding whether he should help Rikki destroy Nagaina’s eggs is an example of
a) Internal conflict
b) External conflict
c) simile
d) idiom
a) Internal conflict
We see personification in Rikki Tikki Tavi when?
a) Rikki often exaggerates
b) The animals are talking/acting like humans
c) The author compares the characters using like or as
d) The family arrives in the story
b) The animals are talking/acting like humans
Which characters take action when others fail to?
a) Darzee and Darzee’s wife
b) Rikki and Chuchundra
c) Nagaina and Darzee’s wife
d) Darzee and Chuchundra
c) Nagaina and Darzee's wife
The initiating event in Rikki Tikki Tavi is when
a) Nag and Rikki fight
b) Rikki kills Karait
c) Rikki kills Nagaina
d) Rikki meets Nag and Nagaina
d) Rikki meets Nag and Nagaina
Rikki Tikki is washed away in a flood! This is an example of which conflict type?
a) Individual vs. Society
b) Individual vs. Self
c) Individual vs. Technology
d) Individual vs. Nature
d) Individual vs. Nature
"Be careful. I am Death!" is an example of which of the following? (pg. 21)
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) hyperbole
a) metaphor
“It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summerhouses, of Marshal Niel roses; lime and orange trees; clumps of bamboos; and thickets of high grass.”
Which definition from above fits with the underlined word in the sentence?
a) Flowering shrubs
b) A dusty pink color
c) Moved upward
d) Increased in value
a) Flowering shrubs
Put the parts of the plot in the correct order
- Initiating Event
- Resolution
- Rising Action
- Falling Action
- Climax
- Exposition
1. Exposition
2. Initiating Event
3. Rising Action
4. Climax
5. Falling Action
6. Resolution
Rikki Tikki decides to chase after Nagaina into the cobra's hole! This decision is an example of which conflict type?
a) Individual vs. Self
b) Individual vs. Individual
c) Individual vs. Nature
d) Individual vs. Society
a) Individual vs. Self
"Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!" is an example of which of the following? (pg. 25)
a) Personification
b) Onomatopoeia
c) Idiom
d) Alliteration
d) Alliteration
Which set of words has a positive connotation?
a) Cheap, bossy, childish
b) Clean, Grimy, Neat
c) Friendly, thrifty, witty
d) Stubborn, workaholic, tolerant
c) Friendly, thrifty, witty