"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" Pages 1 - 7

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  1. 3. the name of Chuchundra's cousin (the rat) who warned him to be careful of Nag and Nagaina, for they were dangerous (paragraph 46).
  2. 4. vocabulary word meaning "to help to grow"
  3. 6. According to paragraph 33, a mongoose is great at fighting snakes because it is ____ (fast), not because they are immune to their venom.
  4. 7. When Rikki is first found, the boy thinks he is ____.
  5. 9. Chuchundra, the muskrat, warns Rikki that the snakes were plotting outside the bungalow's _____.
  6. 13. the author of "Rikki Tikki Tavi"
  7. 15. Inn the garden, live two evil ______ (black snakes with hoods).
  8. 17. Rikki Tikki Tavi is a _______ (type of animal).
  9. 19. the name of the big, black cobra that lived in the garden with his wife
  10. 20. Rikki is found by the English family in their _____.
  11. 21. Outside the bathroom's ___ (drain), Rikki Tikki overheard Nag and Nagaina plotting.
  12. 23. vocabulary word meaning "a lot" (Rikki Tikki like the meat that he ate _____)
  13. 25. According to paragraph 1, Rikki is going to fight in a great ___!
  14. 27. Rikki Tikki was washed out of his burrow during a summer _____.
  15. 28. Rikki saves Teddy, the young boy, fro being bitten by ____, the little brown snake.
  16. 30. Nag and Nagaina plan to kill the entire ____, so eventually they will have the house and garden to themselves.
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  1. 1. In paragraph 34, Kurait, the brown snakes, says, "Be careful, I am _____!"
  2. 2. ______ tries to attack Rikki Tikki in the garden, but Darzee warns Rikki Tikki just in time.
  3. 3. the name of the muskrat that was afraid he'd be mistakenly killed by Nag
  4. 5. Darzee and his wife are ____ (type of birds).
  5. 7. Teddy's father beat Karait, the brown snake, even though he was already ____.
  6. 8. Darzee's wife was sad because Nag, the cobra, had eaten one of her _____.
  7. 10. Mongooses like Rikki are filled with nosiness and ____ (paragraph 7).
  8. 11. On his 2nd day with the family, Rikki Tikki explored the _____ behind the bungalow(house).
  9. 12. The Englishman tells his wife that Rikki will protect them just like a ____ (a bloodhound) -paragraph 15
  10. 14. vocabulary word meaning "divine protection" or "someone sent to save another"
  11. 16. the name of the cantonment (military base where officers live) where the English family lives (paragraph 1)
  12. 18. Nag's wife's name (Nag is the male cobra)
  13. 22. the name of our main character; a mongoose
  14. 24. Rikki's mother fed him dead _____ when he was young, so he wouldn't be afraid of them.
  15. 26. When a mongoose is angry, its eyes grow ___(paragraph 32).
  16. 29. the name of the boy who finds Rikki Tikki and welcomes him into his family