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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 is missing from the first kill site that Corbett sees of the Thak man-eater?
(a) Tracks.
(b) Blood.
(c) A drag.
(d) Evidence of struggle.

2. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?
(a) The leopard is alive and moving.
(b) A second leopard showed up.
(c) The wounded leopard was sighted miles from the spot.
(d) The leopard is near death.

3. 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.

4. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?
(a) Large hearted gentleman with boundless courage.
(b) Instinctual and natural.
(c) Aggressive and cruel.
(d) Monarch of the forests.

5. Which of the following best characterizes how the tiger cub approached the place he had left the chital?
(a) Impatiently and angrily.
(b) Caustiously and thoughtfully.
(c) Fearfully and nervously.
(d) Directly and casually.

Short Answer Questions

1. After having very little success using buffalo as lures, what does Corbett try using?

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

3. What does Corbett deduce about the man-eater from the information the villagers give him?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that Corbett says worked to his advantage when he finally came face to face with the Chowgarh man-eater?

5. Which of the following is a theory that Corbett develops about why the Thak tigress had become a man-eater?

(see the answer key)

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