Question 1 (5 points) (from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)
Read the passage carefully and then answer the question,
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Seowee
cantonment. Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always
creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-ikki did the real fighting
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his
restless nose were pink; he could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use; he could fluff up his
tail till it looked like a bottle-brush, and his war-cry, as he scuttled through the long grass, was: "Rikk-tikk-cikki-tikki-echk!"
This passage is (5 points)
an opening to a story about a mongoose who was called Rikki-tikki-tavi.
a passage about a dog and cat who lived with a little boy in a bungalow.
a description of where the big bungalow was located when Darzee came.
Od an explanation of Rikki-tikki-tavi's famous Syar-cry and how his tail looked.
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