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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Chowgarh Tigers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What establishes the fact that the first of the Chowgrarh tigers Corbett kills is also a man-eater?
(a) Reports from a neighboring region where the younger tiger had killed people.
(b) That a man and wife had been killed simultaneously.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Clothes found in the stomach of the tiger.

3. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?
(a) That the leopard may be suffering greatly.
(b) That so many gunshots would ruin the skin.
(c) That someone else had come and killed and taken the leopard.
(d) That the leopard may have moved.

4. What keeps the exhausted Corbett awake when he finally returns to town after killing the first tiger?
(a) The villagers celebrating the death of the tiger.
(b) A violent storm.
(c) The second tiger circling the village and calling.
(d) News of another person killed by the tiger.

5. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?
(a) A second leopard showed up.
(b) The leopard is near death.
(c) The leopard is alive and moving.
(d) The wounded leopard was sighted miles from the spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett find from the little girl the tigress of Champawat carried off?

2. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?

3. When does Corbett return to the spot where he shot the leopard?

4. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?

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

(see the answer key)

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