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

2. How had the Champawat tigress killed the last victim prior to Corbett's arrival?
(a) Snuck into her house and drug her away at night.
(b) Jumped on her while she was cutting grass.
(c) Pulled her down by a foot while she was climbing out of a tree.
(d) Pulled her off a path from the next village.

3. What does Corbett hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?
(a) None of the above.
(b) News of another death in a neighboring town.
(c) The tiger calling.
(d) A langur warning call.

4. What happens to the girl the Chowgarh man-eater leaves wounded?
(a) She dies minutes later.
(b) She dies weeks later of infection.
(c) She heals.
(d) She is left in the square where the tiger kills her that night.

5. Who does Corbett go fetch to help him retrieve the body of the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The owner of the water fuffalo.
(b) None of the above
(c) His sister and a party of twenty men.
(d) The other big game hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

2. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?

3. What does Corbett say has altered as much as ladies fashion over the years?

4. What is only two or three hundred yards from the Foresters hut where Corbett stays in Mohan?

5. Who comes to see Corbett nearly as soon as he arrives.

(see the answer key)

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