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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 tale of heroism does Corbett tell?
(a) A story told to him by another big game hunter who witnessed it.
(b) A local legend.
(c) A fictional account of heroism.
(d) The Kanda man-eater's last victim.

2. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?
(a) He circles around him, spiraling inward.
(b) With all the men in long line moving forward together.
(c) He sends Robin first to scare him out of cover.
(d) Creeping toward him in the cover of a fallen log.

3. What difference is there between the kills of man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?
(a) The leopards eat less of the victim.
(b) The tigers remove their victims from the kill site.
(c) The tigers kill during the day and the leopards at night.
(d) None of the above.

4. 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.

5. What interesting information do the people of Mohan give Corbett about the man-eater?
(a) It usually kills people while they sleep.
(b) It moves at a sideways angle.
(c) None of the above.
(d) It moans almost all the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?

2. What does Corbett say about assuming a tiger is a man-eater?

3. What does Corbett deduce from the two wounded women that returned home after being attacked by the Chowgarh tiger?

4. What happened to the chital that the tiger had killed and left?

5. Why does Corbett give up trying to film his subject?

(see the answer key)

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