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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Fish of My Dreams.

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) When they are compelled to through stress of circumstance.
(d) After they have been shot at by hunters.

2. 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 other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.
(c) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.
(d) From a dak runner passing his house that saw pugmarks.

3. How is inter village communication maintained during the time of the Chowgarh tiger when the paths are too dangerous to use?
(a) Radio.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A serious of cables for messages.
(d) Shouting from high places.

4. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?
(a) Forest fire.
(b) Poison bait.
(c) Snare traps.
(d) A beat to drive her down a narrow gorge.

5. What does Corbett deduce from the two wounded women that returned home after being attacked by the Chowgarh tiger?
(a) The other tiger was the experienced man-eater.
(b) The tiger was wounded.
(c) The tiger had depended on the cub to make the kills.
(d) The tiger was attacking for vengeance, not hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that makes the valley Corbett fishes in so pleasant?

2. Who is being threatened by the Bachelor of Powalgarh when Corbett comes across them?

3. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?

4. What interesting information do the people of Mohan give Corbett about the man-eater?

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

(see the answer key)

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