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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. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?
(a) Large hearted gentleman with boundless courage.
(b) Aggressive and cruel.
(c) Monarch of the forests.
(d) Instinctual and natural.

2. When does Robin disappear?
(a) When all the other dogs swarm the leopard.
(b) When the leopard swats him with a paw.
(c) When they can hear the leopard charging at them but can't see it.
(d) When all the men open fire.

3. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?
(a) Go home and return the next day.
(b) Climb a nearby tree and out wait the leopard.
(c) Have a group of men beat the leopard out for them.
(d) Shoot where the leopard is likely to be in hopes of hitting it or driving it out.

4. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?
(a) He lost the scent trail.
(b) There are monkeys in the bush.
(c) The tiger is in the bush.
(d) He can't see into the bush and wishes to be carried.

5. What is Corbett's overwhelming feeling immediately after he gets his first shot at the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Relief.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Regret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens that makes Corbett know he's picked a winner in Robin?

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

3. Where does Corbett wait for the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

4. Who was Robin amongst the litter?

5. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?

(see the answer key)

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