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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Thak Man-Eater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corbett hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?
(a) News of another death in a neighboring town.
(b) The tiger calling.
(c) None of the above.
(d) A langur warning call.

2. Who is with Corbett when he shoots the Thak man-eater?
(a) Eight villagers from Thak.
(b) Ibbotson.
(c) Four men and two goats.
(d) The men from the labor camp.

3. What causes the tiger to flee from the kill area in the morning after Corbett's night tree vigil?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The call of Corbett's men on the ridge.
(c) Another tiger arriving.
(d) A wild shot Corbett made.

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

5. 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 ghosts of the tigress's victims.
(c) The woman running through the woods calling to her sister.
(d) The tigress wailing all night after getting shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other animal does Corbett almost kill while hunting for the Chowgarh tigers?

2. What difference is there between the kills of man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

3. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?

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

5. What does Corbett discover the morning after the storm when he checks on the first buffalo he staked out in hopes of luring the Mohan man-eater?

(see the answer key)

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