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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 something that the frequency with which a man-eater will kill depends on?
(a) Whether it is a male or female with cubs.
(b) The nature of any disability it has.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The supply of natural food in the area.

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

3. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?
(a) Thorn bushes.
(b) A weaving loom.
(c) His saddle and gun.
(d) Chairs.

4. Why does the little boy Corbett remembers not fear tigers when he sleeps in the woods?
(a) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.
(b) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.
(c) He was raised by a tigress.
(d) He had a charm put on him as a baby to thwart tigers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What connects the appearance of man-eating leopards to disease epidemics?

3. What does Corbett say about assuming a tiger is a man-eater?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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