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

2. 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) Injuries from a porcupine.
(d) Mange.

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

4. What did the tigress of Muktesar do with the first person she killed?
(a) Took it to her cubs.
(b) Devoured it.
(c) Left it.
(d) Ate a few bites.

5. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?
(a) Outside alone watching the road while his men were safe in a room.
(b) Trying to re-assure the villagers.
(c) Helping the townspeople search for the tiger.
(d) Barricaded in a house with everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?

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

5. What does Corbett say about the cubs of man-eaters?

(see the answer key)

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