Answer the following about literary mongooses, for 10 points each:
[10e] The mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi saves a family living in India from two cobras in a story from this author’s The Jungle Book.
ANSWER: Rudyard Kipling [or Joseph Rudyard Kipling]
[10m] Derek Walcott wrote that “The plots are forced, the prose sedate and silly” in the poem “The Mongoose,” which he wrote as part of his vicious feud with this author of A Bend in the River.
ANSWER: V. S. Naipaul (“NYE-paul”) [or Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul]
[10h] In this 2007 novel, a mongoose helps protect a sci-fi obsessed teen from a fukú (“foo-KOO”) curse when he falls in love with the prostitute Ybon (“ee-BON”).
ANSWER: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (by Junot Díaz)
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