Rikki Tikki Tavi
Mixed Bag
Rikki Tikki Tavi & Elements of Fiction
Story Structure
Conflict & Characterization
100

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a ________ "rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits".

What is a Mongoose?

100

Rikki fights Nag in the bungalow's __________

What is "bathroom"?

100

The titular chittering"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is the ________ of his story.

What is protagonist?

100

Teddy's family finding Rikki-tikki-tavi during the story's Exposition is the _________ of the overall story and conflict

What is "Inciting Incident"

100

Teddy is a _______ character because he remains the same throughout

What is static?

200

The two slithering spouses ____ and _____ who antagonize Rikki and his friends are named.

Who are Nag and Nagaina? 

200

Nagaina holds her eggs in the _________

What is "the melon bed"?

200

The snakes are the story's ___________

What is "antagonists"?

200

Rikki fighting Nag in the bathroom occurs in the _________

What is "Rising Action" ?

200

Rikki starting off afraid of fighting the snakes but then ending the story by fighting Nagiana head on shows how he is a _______ character.

What is "dynamic"?

300

Nagaina threatened to strike Teddy because ________.

What is "revenge for the death of her husband?" (I will take some version of the death of Nag)

300

Rikki's constant fights against the snakes demonstrates how him as a character is fiercely loyal to _________

Who is "Teddy and his family"?

300

Rikki-tikki-tavi's choice to distract Nagaina using her cobra eggs is an example of _______ characterization as it shows Rikki's ability to outsmart his enemy.

What is "Indirect"

300

Darzee believing Rikki died fighting Nagaina only for him to emerge from the hole alive is an example of __________ in the story diagram. 

What is Falling Action?

300

While the story's main conflict is between Rikki and the snakes, the external conflict in the exposition of Rikki being flooded out in his burrow is an example of Character vs _______

What is nature?

400

Rikki-tikki-tavi is able to smash the cobra eggs with the help of ______

Who is Darzee's wife?

400

Rikki-tikki-tavi is told from a __________ perspective

What is third person omniscient ?

400

Kipling describing Nag as having "wicked eyes" and a "cold heart" demonstrates how word choice can demonstrate the author's ____ and how he wants certain characters to be conveyed.

What is tone?

400

DAILY DOUBLE: Rikki telling the Coppersmith bird that all the snakes are dead is in the story's __________

What is "Falling Action"?

400

When Rikki tikki tavi's eyes go red he is prone to fighting. This direct characterization demonstrates his _______ towards the snakes.

What is "anger?"

500

Rudyard Kipling routinely used India as a setting in his writing. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, his family and friends all inhabit the _________ in India

What is the Segowlee cantonment? (Will also take "big bungalow" or some mention of the two

500

Rikki tikki tavi's tail is said to resemble a __________

What is a bottle brush?

500

The first few sentences of Rikki Tikki Tavi: "This is the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single handed through ..." help _______ the eventual conflict between Rikki and the cobras.

What is foreshadow?

500

The climax of the story follows Nagaina threatening Teddy and really begins when Rikki chases Nagaina into _________-

What is "the rat hole"? (Will take some example of this)

500

DAILY DOUBLE: Chuchundra the muskrat is too scared to run out in the middle of the room where Nag and Nagaina are. Him having to face his own fears is a ________ conflict and is an example of "Character vs _______"

What is "internal conflict" & "Character vs Self"?