

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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7th Grade
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Paula Rein
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Reading: Use Prior Knowledge to Make Predictions
Predicting means making an intelligent guess about what will happen next in a story based on details in the text. You can also use prior knowledge to make predictions. For example, if a story introduces a mongoose and a snake and you know that mongooses and snakes are natural enemies, you can predict that the story will involve a conflict between the two animals.
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Open Ended
When Teddy’s mother first sees Rikki, he appears to be dead, but she says, “No, . . . let’s take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn’t really dead.” Based on this quotation and your prior knowledge, what can you predict will happen to Rikki?
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Open Ended
Using prior knowledge and the information contained in the following passage from “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” what can you predict will happen next?
Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss.
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Literary Analysis: Plot
Plot is the related sequence of events in a short story and other works of fiction. A plot has the following elements:
• Exposition: introduction of the setting, the characters, and the basic situation
• Rising Action: events that introduce a conflict, or struggle, and increase the tension
• Climax: the story’s high point, at which the eventual outcome becomes clear
• Falling Action: events that follow the climax
• Resolution: the final outcome and tying up of loose ends, when the reader learns how the conflict is resolved
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Open Ended
Who are the characters, and what is the setting described in the exposition?
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Open Ended
How do you know that the appearance of Nag is part of the rising action?
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Open Ended
What happens in the climax of “Rikki-tikki-tavi”?
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Open Ended
Describe one event in the falling action of the story.
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Open Ended
What happens in the resolution of “Rikki-tikki-tavi”?
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Multiple Choice
What kind of animal is Rikki-Tikki?
a cat
a muskrat
a mongoose
a snake
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Multiple Choice
In Rikki-tikki a flood takes Rikki from his burrow to a garden where an English man finds him. In what part of the plot does the flood take place?
The Climax
The resolution
The falling action
the exposition
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Multiple Choice
At the beginning of Rikki-Tikki, which characteristic does Rikki display as soon as he has warmed up?
Greed
Bravery
Curiosity
Laziness
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Multiple Choice
Based on this quote what can you predict will happen next?
"No," Said his mother; "Let's take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn't really dead."
Rikki will probably live
The mother will become Rikki's only friend
Rikki will die soon
Rikki will fight Nag and Nagaina
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Multiple Choice
Based on the following passage from the story, what do you think it means when Rikki's tail grows "bottlebrushy."
"This is a splendid hunting ground," Rikki said, and his tail grew bottlebrushy at the thought of it.
Rikki is hungry
Rikki is ready to run
Rikki is excited
Rikki is afraid
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Multiple Choice
When Rikki first explores the garden, a conflict is introduced. Whom is the conflict between?
Nag and Nagaina
Rikki-Tikki and Nag
Rikki-Tikki and Darzee
Darzee and Darzee's wife
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Multiple Choice
What prediction can you make based on your prior knowledge and this quote from the story?
"Teddy is safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now -"
The snakes are NOT a threat to Teddy
Rikki will fail to protect Teddy
Rikki will protect Teddy from the snakes
Rikk will attack Teddy
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Multiple Choice
After Rikki kills Karait, how does he feel?
Confident
Tired
Jealous
defeated
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Multiple Choice
Who is Nagaina in the story?
Nag's wife
Nag's father
Nag's sister
Nag's mother
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Multiple Choice
The birds and frog rejoice, and the Coppersmith sings, "Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead!" In which part of the plot do these events take place?
Rising Action
Falling Action
Exposition
Climax
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Multiple Choice
Which statement best describes Rikki's character?
He is selfish
He is fierce and bloodthirsty
He is brave and loyal
he is loving and shy
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