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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the forest guard and fisherman allegedly trip over while fleeing from the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Each other.
(b) A sleeping bear.
(c) A snare trap for the tiger.
(d) A log.

2. When does Robin disappear?
(a) When they can hear the leopard charging at them but can't see it.
(b) When all the other dogs swarm the leopard.
(c) When the leopard swats him with a paw.
(d) When all the men open fire.

3. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?
(a) Into a large lantana bush.
(b) Into a dense, nearly impassable part of the forest.
(c) Up a tree.
(d) Into a large cluster of rocks.

4. Whose aid does Corbett unsuccessfully enlist to find the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The other big game hunters after him.
(b) A small herd of water buffalo.
(c) A band of monkeys.
(d) All of his men.

5. What is only two or three hundred yards from the Foresters hut where Corbett stays in Mohan?
(a) A tree where the tiger had killed just days before.
(b) A hunters lookout.
(c) None of the above.
(d) A village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Corbett decide to go home after wounding the leopard?

2. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?

3. What is unusual about the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

4. What does Corbett find exasperating about one of the men that guides in Champawat?

5. What does Corbett find is the cause of the Champawat tigress's need to hunt people?

(see the answer key)

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