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Rikki-tikki's Conflict with Nag and Nagaina 67 Views


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Which phrase best describes the conflict Rikki-tikki has with Nag and Nagaina?

(A)engaging in a physical battle
(B)making a difficult decision
(C)standing up for what is right
(D)becoming a victim of fate


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Yeah Okay see reading analyzers You got her essay here

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and we're skimming it again and we just did But

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why not do it again when we get a frequent

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flyer mile each time we do this from american airlines

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Yeah Thanks guys Okay We're going to just move on

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the question on that really bad I think we don't

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really get a frequent flyer mile each time we skim

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Just kidding our lawyers man to say that Okay Which

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phrase best describes the conflict ricky ticky has with nag

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and nag a nina isat engaging in a physical battles

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that making a difficult decision standing up for what is

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right are becoming a victim of fate Okay well a

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conflict is an issue that arises between two or more

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opposing forces right Got a snake and a mongoose most

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often this car's pulling a protagonist the good guy and

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an antagonised The person of force working against the good

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guy Not all conflicts are physical but in this passage

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there's an actual fight between riki tiki and the cobra's

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Full of fighting swiping jumping and personal insulting You know

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they do that in snake land So it's a physical

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battle The answer here is eh it's not be Rikki

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tikki doesn't really have a choice in battling the cobra's

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because well they'll kill him if he doesn't put up

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a fight right so no difficult decisions there you fight

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or die there's also no mention of right or wrong

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or faith here These are animals mostly doing their animal

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thing So that's it he's engaging in a physical battle 00:01:25.628 --> [endTime] and you know hopefully he wins

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