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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What connects the appearance of man-eating leopards to disease epidemics?
(a) The change in livestock management.
(b) The human population is easier prey.
(c) One of the Hindu traditions of disposing of the dead.
(d) None of the above.

2. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?
(a) They smell.
(b) They have a tendency to be mangy.
(c) The tigers often have bald spots.
(d) They have all been remarkably fine.

3. What does Corbett finally kill the bear they chase with?
(a) An axe.
(b) A shot to the head.
(c) A large rock.
(d) A hunting knife.

4. What does Corbett find is the cause of the Champawat tigress's need to hunt people?
(a) An old hip injury.
(b) Broken teeth from being shot.
(c) Congenital deformity.
(d) Age and arthritis.

5. It most cases, which of the following best characterizes the tiger's change from animal to human flesh?
(a) Rancorous.
(b) Instinctual.
(c) Accidental.
(d) Defensive.

6. Where does Corbett first see the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) From the window of a train.
(b) In a beautiful glade near his home.
(c) After many days of stalking him.
(d) While hunting a man-eater in a neighboring province.

7. What reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?
(a) Being difficult to work with in the field.
(b) Being short tempered.
(c) Being keener on photographing animals than killing them.
(d) Being a trophy and reward hunter.

8. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

9. Where is the last chance Corbett has to get a shot at the man-eater of Chowgarh on his first visit?
(a) When he watches the place the tiger left her last victim.
(b) When the tiger circles the village he is in.
(c) From a ridge the night before his departure.
(d) At a watering hole on his way out of town.

10. What nerve does Robin have that he is unable to control?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The one on that makes the hair on the back of his leg stand up.
(c) Salivating.
(d) The twitching of his left ear.

11. What does Corbett decide to do when stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Dress as woman working in the field.
(b) Ambush the tiger at a water hole.
(c) Take only a light manueverable rifle.
(d) Lure the tiger to him.

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

13. What is Robin's pedigree?
(a) Imported English hound.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A well known and respected line of working dogs.
(d) Son of a legendary Indian hunting dog.

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

15. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?
(a) Climb a nearby tree and out wait the leopard.
(b) Have a group of men beat the leopard out for them.
(c) Shoot where the leopard is likely to be in hopes of hitting it or driving it out.
(d) Go home and return the next day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?

2. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?

3. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?

4. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?

5. Where does Corbett spend his first night in pursuit of the Chowgrarh tiger?

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