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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Robin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What act of heroism does a young woman do when the tigress carries off her sister?
(a) She clubs the tiger with a branch.
(b) She runs after the tiger for a hundred yards yelling at it to let her sister go and take her instead.
(c) She tries to hang onto the tiger as it leaves with its prey.
(d) She grabs her sister's baby from the hands of the woman as she is drug off.

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

3. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?
(a) Creeping toward him in the cover of a fallen log.
(b) With all the men in long line moving forward together.
(c) He sends Robin first to scare him out of cover.
(d) He circles around him, spiraling inward.

4. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?
(a) When their diet is low in salt.
(b) When they are compelled to through stress of circumstance.
(c) When people start to work in their territory.
(d) After they have been shot at by hunters.

5. 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 had a charm put on him as a baby to thwart tigers.
(c) He was raised by a tigress.
(d) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Corbett ask that the government rewards for the Champawat Man-eater be cancelled?

2. What physical ailment does Robin have that limits his abilities?

3. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?

4. What does Corbett find is the cause of the Champawat tigress's need to hunt people?

5. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?

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