Man-eaters of Kumaon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Jim Corbett (hunter)
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Man-eaters of Kumaon Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Jim Corbett (hunter)
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had killed the cow that Corbett investigates when looking for the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) A fine male leopard.
(b) The Chowgarh man-eater.
(c) A bear.
(d) A young tiger looking for territory.

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

3. What happens that makes Corbett know he's picked a winner in Robin?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Robin joins a group of hunting dogs that cornered a leopard.
(c) Robin growls when anybody approaches Corbett.
(d) Robin hangs onto a wounded peafowl as it runs dragging him along.

4. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?
(a) Creeping toward him in the cover of a fallen log.
(b) He sends Robin first to scare him out of cover.
(c) With all the men in long line moving forward together.
(d) He circles around him, spiraling inward.

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

6. What happens while Corbett is writing the story about Robin?
(a) Robin begs and begs to go out hunting.
(b) Robin dies.
(c) Robin's puppies are born.
(d) Corbett finds some old pictures of Robin.

7. What does Corbett decide to do when stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Take only a light manueverable rifle.
(b) Dress as woman working in the field.
(c) Lure the tiger to him.
(d) Ambush the tiger at a water hole.

8. What does Corbett unsuccessfully do to try and locate the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh in dense bushes?
(a) Drive monkeys into the area.
(b) Send for Robin.
(c) Light a fire that would creep across the area.
(d) Shoot into the bushes with small shotgun shot.

9. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?
(a) That we have no sense of smell.
(b) That it is technology, and not nature, that makes us strong.
(c) That we stalk them too.
(d) That we fight to preserve every one of our species.

10. Why does the little boy Corbett remembers not fear tigers when he sleeps in the woods?
(a) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.
(b) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.
(c) He had a charm put on him as a baby to thwart tigers.
(d) He was raised by a tigress.

11. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

12. When did the tigress of Muktesar start killing people specifically for her to eat?
(a) Only after her cubs were grown.
(b) Her third victim.
(c) Her second victim.
(d) Her first victim.

13. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?
(a) She arrives a man-eater from Nepal after killing two hundred people there.
(b) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.
(c) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.
(d) None of the above.

14. What reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?
(a) Being keener on photographing animals than killing them.
(b) Being difficult to work with in the field.
(c) Being a trophy and reward hunter.
(d) Being short tempered.

15. What does Corbett say plays an important part in the sport of hunting man-eaters?
(a) The other beings of the forest and the wind.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Monkeys and luck.
(d) The wind and a good hunting dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other animal does Corbett almost kill while hunting for the Chowgarh tigers?

2. Where does Corbett first see the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

3. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?

4. What difference is there between the kills of man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that Corbett says worked to his advantage when he finally came face to face with the Chowgarh man-eater?

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