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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. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?
(a) Barricaded in a house with everyone else.
(b) Trying to re-assure the villagers.
(c) Outside alone watching the road while his men were safe in a room.
(d) Helping the townspeople search for the tiger.

2. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?
(a) Condition of claws.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Speed.
(d) Condition of teeth.

3. How had the Champawat tigress killed the last victim prior to Corbett's arrival?
(a) Snuck into her house and drug her away at night.
(b) Jumped on her while she was cutting grass.
(c) Pulled her down by a foot while she was climbing out of a tree.
(d) Pulled her off a path from the next village.

4. Whose aid does Corbett unsuccessfully enlist to find the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The other big game hunters after him.
(b) A small herd of water buffalo.
(c) A band of monkeys.
(d) All of his men.

5. Which of the following is NOT a natural circumstance which may incite any tiger to kill a human?
(a) A person entering the tiger's territory.
(b) A wounded tiger.
(c) A tiger on a fresh kill.
(d) A tigress with small cubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?

2. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?

3. Which of the following is something that the frequency with which a man-eater will kill depends on?

4. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?

5. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?

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