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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is being threatened by the Bachelor of Powalgarh when Corbett comes across them?
(a) The dak runner.
(b) A man and his buffalos.
(c) A group of women cutting grass.
(d) Two big game hunters who ran out of ammunition.

2. What does Corbett say about the cubs of man-eaters?
(a) They usually die young.
(b) He has never seen them become man-eaters.
(c) They are especially aggressive.
(d) They will automatically become man-eaters.

3. Why does the little boy Corbett remembers not fear tigers when he sleeps in the woods?
(a) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.
(b) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.
(c) He had a charm put on him as a baby to thwart tigers.
(d) He was raised by a tigress.

4. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?
(a) He finds the leopard nearly dead in a bush.
(b) The leopard springs at them from behind a log.
(c) Robin springs the leopard from a bush and Corbett shoots it.
(d) The leopard chases Robin across a clearing.

5. What happens that makes Corbett know he's picked a winner in Robin?
(a) Robin joins a group of hunting dogs that cornered a leopard.
(b) Robin growls when anybody approaches Corbett.
(c) Robin hangs onto a wounded peafowl as it runs dragging him along.
(d) None of the above.

6. How is inter village communication maintained during the time of the Chowgarh tiger when the paths are too dangerous to use?
(a) A serious of cables for messages.
(b) Radio.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Shouting from high places.

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

8. What happens while Corbett is writing the story about Robin?
(a) Robin begs and begs to go out hunting.
(b) Robin's puppies are born.
(c) Robin dies.
(d) Corbett finds some old pictures of Robin.

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

10. What story does Corbett tell of Robin?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The time Robin saved his life.
(c) The time Robin faced down a leopard.
(d) The one time Robin left him in a tight corner.

11. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She lost her power of speech.
(b) She became religious.
(c) She died of a heart attack.
(d) She threw up.

12. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?
(a) Listen to the jungle sounds to see what he could tell about the leopard.
(b) Tie Robin to a tree.
(c) Clean his rifle.
(d) Make a plan with the other men.

13. How had the Champawat tigress killed the last victim prior to Corbett's arrival?
(a) Snuck into her house and drug her away at night.
(b) Pulled her down by a foot while she was climbing out of a tree.
(c) Jumped on her while she was cutting grass.
(d) Pulled her off a path from the next village.

14. What act of heroism does a young woman do when the tigress carries off her sister?
(a) She grabs her sister's baby from the hands of the woman as she is drug off.
(b) She runs after the tiger for a hundred yards yelling at it to let her sister go and take her instead.
(c) She clubs the tiger with a branch.
(d) She tries to hang onto the tiger as it leaves with its prey.

15. What keeps the exhausted Corbett awake when he finally returns to town after killing the first tiger?
(a) News of another person killed by the tiger.
(b) The second tiger circling the village and calling.
(c) The villagers celebrating the death of the tiger.
(d) A violent storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bachelor of Powalgarh do after Corbett fires his first shot at him?

2. What are the Chowgarh tigers doing when Corbett first sees them?

3. What does Corbett say about the bungalow he stayed in while in Champawat?

4. What does Corbett worry about when he sees Robin missing?

5. Why do leopards, who are to a certain extent scavengers, become man-eaters?

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