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

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

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

4. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?
(a) None of the above.
(b) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.
(c) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.
(d) She arrives a man-eater from Nepal after killing two hundred people there.

5. What drove the tigress of Muktesar to start eating human flesh?
(a) A woman cutting grass near her lair.
(b) An old gunshot would in her leg.
(c) Mange.
(d) Injuries from a porcupine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?

2. What conclusion does Corbett draw from differences between man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

3. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?

4. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?

5. Why do leopards, who are to a certain extent scavengers, become man-eaters?

(see the answer key)

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