Making Inferences about Literature - Quiz - Level D Sweet T made the inference that the crocodile was not a danger to the
other animals living with Doctor Dolittle. Which detail from the story
BEST supports Sweet T's inference?
But to everyone in the
house he was always as
gentle as a kitten.
3 And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby,
the crocodile who had a bad tooth-ache escaped at
night and came into the Doctor's garden. The Doctor
talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into
the house and made his tooth better. But when the
crocodile saw what a nice house it was-with all the
different places for the different kinds of animals-he
too wanted to live with the Doctor. He asked couldn't
he sleep in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden
if he promised not to eat the fish. When the
circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and
savage that he frightened them away. But to every
one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten,
But when the crocodile saw what
a nice house it was-with all the
different places for the different
kinds of animals-he too wanted
to live with the Doctor.
When the circus-men came
to take him back he got so
wild and savage that he
frightened them away.
He asked couldn't he sleep in
the fish-pond at the bottom
of the garden, if he promised
not to eat the fish,
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