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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Bachelor of Powalgarh.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Corbett wait for the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) None of the above.
(b) In a tree.
(c) Lying down in the open.
(d) Wedged in between two rocks.

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

4. How does Corbett learn of the location of the Bachelor of Powalgarh when he starts to pursue him?
(a) He sees the pugmarks when out walking Robin.
(b) From a dak runner passing his house that saw pugmarks.
(c) From other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.
(d) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.

5. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett say about the bungalow he stayed in while in Champawat?

2. What is unusual about the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

3. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?

4. What does Corbett finally kill the bear they chase with?

5. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?

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