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

2. Who does Corbett stop and talk to on the train into the Mohan forest bungalow?
(a) A terrified group of women.
(b) An old man who was attacked years before by the tiger.
(c) A group of hunters leaving the area.
(d) None of the above.

3. What animal is the Pipal Pani tiger mistaken for and shot?
(a) A man-eating tiger.
(b) A hyena.
(c) A ghooral.
(d) A pig.

4. What is Corbett's first strategy to hunt the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Watching t
(b) Beating the tiger out of a ravine.
(c) Staking out buffalo as bait.
(d) Keeping vigil on the road until the tiger passes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the last chance Corbett has to get a shot at the man-eater of Chowgarh on his first visit?

2. What does Corbett worry the Pipal Pani tiger will do after being wounded?

3. What does the father do when he realizes his son is missing?

4. Why does the little boy Corbett remembers not fear tigers when he sleeps in the woods?

5. Where does Corbett leave the fish after he catches it?

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