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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Kanda Man-Eater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?
(a) He can't see into the bush and wishes to be carried.
(b) He lost the scent trail.
(c) There are monkeys in the bush.
(d) The tiger is in the bush.

2. Where does Corbett first see the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) From the window of a train.
(b) After many days of stalking him.
(c) In a beautiful glade near his home.
(d) While hunting a man-eater in a neighboring province.

3. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?
(a) The sunlight on grass with a dark rock behind.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The dead buffalo.
(d) A different tiger.

4. What is Robin's pedigree?
(a) Son of a legendary Indian hunting dog.
(b) Imported English hound.
(c) A well known and respected line of working dogs.
(d) None of the above.

5. What conclusion does Corbett draw from differences between man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?
(a) Because they are unafraid of people, tigers are easier to kill.
(b) Leopards are easier to catch directly after a kill.
(c) Leopards are more fond of human flesh than tigers.
(d) Leopards are remarkably hard to track.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?

2. What animal does Corbett see and wish he could photograph in the story about the fish of his dreams?

3. Why does Corbett give up trying to film his subject?

4. Which of the following is NOT something that Corbett says can be determined by examining a tiger's scratchmarks?

5. Who was Robin amongst the litter?

(see the answer key)

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