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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Kanda Man-Eater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men from Champawat report having heard and seen?
(a) The tigress carrying a naked woman in its mouth as she wailed and screamed for help.
(b) The tigress wailing all night after getting shot.
(c) The ghosts of the tigress's victims.
(d) The woman running through the woods calling to her sister.

2. Who was Robin amongst the litter?
(a) The largest and most aggressive.
(b) The only one left.
(c) The smallest and thinnest.
(d) The only one with no white on him.

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

4. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?
(a) That the leopard may be suffering greatly.
(b) That the leopard may have moved.
(c) That so many gunshots would ruin the skin.
(d) That someone else had come and killed and taken the leopard.

5. Whose home does Corbett see when traveling from town to town in pursuit of the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) The first victim of the Chowgarh tiger, an out of town goat herd.
(b) An American hunter.
(c) The only survivor of a Chowarh tiger attack.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

2. Which of the following is NOT something that Corbett says can be determined by examining a tiger's scratchmarks?

3. Who does Corbett stop and talk to on the train into the Mohan forest bungalow?

4. Why does the tiger leave the base of Corbett's tree?

5. How does Corbett decide to continue his pursuit of the man-eater after his unsuccessful first encounter with him?

(see the answer key)

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