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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 tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?
(a) A beat to drive her down a narrow gorge.
(b) Snare traps.
(c) Forest fire.
(d) Poison bait.

2. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.
(b) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(c) A cow killed by a leopard.
(d) No information that could explain what happened.

3. What tale about himself does Corbett refute?
(a) That he is convinced he is to die killed by a tiger.
(b) That he has killed a tiger bare handed.
(c) That he has killed hundreds of man-eaters.
(d) That on this and other occasions he dressed as a woman to attract the man-eater and killed it with sickle.

4. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?
(a) Instinctual and natural.
(b) Monarch of the forests.
(c) Aggressive and cruel.
(d) Large hearted gentleman with boundless courage.

5. Why do leopards, who are to a certain extent scavengers, become man-eaters?
(a) All of the above.
(b) When a tiger in the area becomes a man-eater.
(c) When unresticted slaughter of game deprives them of their food.
(d) When there is an overpopulation of leopards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drove the tigress of Muktesar to start eating human flesh?

2. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?

3. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?

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

5. What do the men from Champawat report having heard and seen?

(see the answer key)

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