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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Pipal Pani Tiger.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Corbett need to kill a snake before hunting a man-eater?
(a) Superstition.
(b) To create faith in him from the people of the area.
(c) The odor of snake meat is a powerful lure.
(d) He uses the venom as poison.

2. When does Corbett encounter the snake in the pool of water?
(a) When the villagers realize what he needs.
(b) When he is circling town looking for a man-eater.
(c) When he goes to get water for tea.
(d) On his way into town.

3. Where does the fish swim to while Corbett watches?
(a) Down stream and out of sight.
(b) A deep pool.
(c) To the other side of the river.
(d) In between two large rocks.

4. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?
(a) That the leopard may be suffering greatly.
(b) That the leopard may have moved.
(c) That so many gunshots would ruin the skin.
(d) That someone else had come and killed and taken the leopard.

5. What establishes the fact that the first of the Chowgrarh tigers Corbett kills is also a man-eater?
(a) Reports from a neighboring region where the younger tiger had killed people.
(b) Clothes found in the stomach of the tiger.
(c) None of the above.
(d) That a man and wife had been killed simultaneously.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Corbett finally overtakes the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh, how is he moving through the forest?

2. What reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?

3. What drove the tigress of Muktesar to start eating human flesh?

4. What does Corbett get distracted admiring as he is inspecting the road?

5. What keeps the exhausted Corbett awake when he finally returns to town after killing the first tiger?

(see the answer key)

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