1. Who is "he'?
Sibia's father
Her brother
The man-eating tiger
The crocodile

2. What was he waiting for?
Any creature that he could catch unawares and feed on.
Sibia and her mother
To sun himself on the warm rocks.
A shoal of fish to come swimming by.

3. The word closest in meaning to, glimmered in the above line is:
glimpsed
glittered
half-hidden
glued

4. What exactly was, the "blue gem'?
a blue diamond
a shiny blue pebble
a piece of sand-worn blue glass
an enormous sapphire

5. The only parts of 'him that were soft and vulnerable were_____________.
his eyes and nose.
his nose and mouth.
the undersides of his arms and tail
his eyes and the undersides of his arms