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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Champawat Man-Eater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?
(a) None of the above.
(b) That they prefer to attack a person from the front.
(c) That they only attack at night.
(d) That they do not eat the head, hands, and feet of human victims.

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

3. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She threw up.
(b) She lost her power of speech.
(c) She died of a heart attack.
(d) She became religious.

4. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?
(a) Condition of teeth.
(b) Condition of claws.
(c) Speed.
(d) Hearing.

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) Because they are unafraid of people, tigers are easier to kill.
(c) Leopards are remarkably hard to track.
(d) Leopards are more fond of human flesh than tigers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?

2. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?

3. How many people does the tigress of Champawat kill in all?

4. What was the total number of people the tigress of Muktesar ended up killing?

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

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