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English
6th -
8thgrade
The White Seal by Rudyard Kipling BMS W. Pankey ELL
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the setting of this story?
Novastoshnah
St. Paul Island
Near Alaska
Antarctica
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who was Sea Catch?
a giant male seal
a baby seal
a whale
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who was Matkah?
Sea Catch's wife
Kotik's mother
A friendly walrus
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why did Sea Catch come to the island early every Spring?
To fight for a place for his nursery
To keep away from all of the fighting
To rescue the baby seals
- 5. Multiple Choice
What were "holluschickie"?
bachelor seals
baby seals
chickenbutts
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did the female seals come to the beach later than the male seals?
They didn't want to get beat up.
The male seals were too violent.
The needed extra vacation time.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What happened when Kotick went down to the ocean for the first time?
A big wave hit him
A shark attacked him
The seal hunters grabbed him
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was Kotick's 'cradle'?
The Pacific Ocean
The beach
A big wave
- 9. Multiple Choice
How much is a score?
20
40
3
- 10. Multiple Choice
Kotick was swimming around the Pacific when "that very minute he turned north, swimming steadily" heading back to Novastoshnah. This is an example of a...
homing instinct
tide
seal getting lost
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who was Kerick Booterin?
The chief of the seal hunters on the island
A walrus
A whale
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who was Patalamon?
Kerrick's son
A walrus
A whale
- 13. Multiple Choice
Where did the seal hunters drive the holluschickie?
To the killing pens
To the hidden island
To the Pacific Ocean
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why did the seal hunters separate some of the holluschickie and kill them before they got to the killing pens?
Because their fur was not perfect.
Because they were too fat.
Because they were too small.
- 15. Multiple Choice
What race were Kerrick and Patalamon?
Asian
African
Aleut
- 16. Multiple Choice
How did most of the seals feel about the seal killing going on?
They didn't care.
They wanted it to change.
They wanted to run away.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why did the seal hunters want to kill the holluschickie?
Only for their skins
They used different parts of the seals for everyday life
They used the blubber to make candles
- 18. Multiple Choice
What did Kerrick and Patalamon think about Kotick?
They thought he was a ghost
They thought he was a sea cow
They thought he could talk
- 19. Multiple Choice
After Kotick witnessed the killing, what was he determined to do?
Find a perfect island without men
Fight the men and kill them all
Help the hunters
- 20. Multiple Choice
Who was Sea Vitch?
A walrus
A whale
A Sea Cow
- 21. Multiple Choice
Who did Sea Vitch tell Kotick to find?
The Sea Cow
The blue whale
the hammerhead shark
- 22. Multiple Choice
How did they describe the Sea Cow to Kotick
They said he was uglier than Sea Vitch
They said he was pure white.
They said he was stupid
- 23. Multiple Choice
What did Kotick discover at all of the islands he visited?
The seals had all been killed off by man
The baby seals were eaten by sharks
The seals killed each other
- 24. Multiple Choice
Why did Kotick try to be patient with the Sea Cows instead of fighting them?
He thought they were so stupid that they would be dead if they didn't know of a safe place.
He realized they probably knew where the safe island was.
He was afraid of them.
- 25. Multiple Choice
What happened when Kotick went back to Novastoshnah and told the seals about the safe island?
They didn't believe him
They wanted to fight him
They gave him to the hunters
- 26. Multiple Choice
What did Kotick have to do to get the other seals to follow him to the new island?
Fight them all
Kill the hunters
Get permission from Sea Catch
- 27. Multiple Choice
The seals were happy at the end because they found a sea where...
no man comes
there were no sharks
the hunters only killed a few seals
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