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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 reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?
(a) Being a trophy and reward hunter.
(b) Being keener on photographing animals than killing them.
(c) Being difficult to work with in the field.
(d) Being short tempered.

2. 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 was raised by a tigress.
(c) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.
(d) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.

3. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She lost her power of speech.
(b) She threw up.
(c) She died of a heart attack.
(d) She became religious.

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

5. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(b) No information that could explain what happened.
(c) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.
(d) A cow killed by a leopard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett learn about the Chowgrarh tiger at the first village?

2. What does Corbett say plays an important part in the sport of hunting man-eaters?

3. What is unusual about the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

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

5. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?

(see the answer key)

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