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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 does the Bachelor of Powalgarh do after Corbett fires his first shot at him?
(a) Run away.
(b) Rip a tree to shreds.
(c) Fall over and lie still.
(d) Try to attack Corbett.

2. Which of the following is NOT something that Corbett says can be determined by examining a tiger's scratchmarks?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Whether the animal has recently eaten human flesh.
(c) The direction it was heading.
(d) Gender.

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

4. What does Corbett discover the morning after the storm when he checks on the first buffalo he staked out in hopes of luring the Mohan man-eater?
(a) The buffalo killed by a leopard.
(b) The buffalo gone.
(c) The buffalo killed by lightening.
(d) The buffalo half eaten by the tiger.

5. What do the men from Champawat report having heard and seen?
(a) The ghosts of the tigress's victims.
(b) The tigress carrying a naked woman in its mouth as she wailed and screamed for help.
(c) The tigress wailing all night after getting shot.
(d) The woman running through the woods calling to her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?

2. What is Corbett's first strategy to hunt the man-eater of Mohan?

3. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?

4. What reason did Corbett find for the tiger in Mohan to have become a man-eater?

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

(see the answer key)

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